[Jon Stratis]

There are certainly some great quotes in the spotlights... but unfortunately a lot of stuff that, as has been pointed out, isn't that great to anyone who isn't "in the know" on what was going on 5 years ago, or to the various personalities on this site. Additionally, There are many great posts out there where spotlighting a single line isn't appropriate, but spotlighting the whole post (which is too long to spotlight) would be.

I would be in favor of doing away with the spotlights while providing another method of highlighting good posts. Another forum I frequented in the past included a "Thanks" button on each post - you could select it to highlight something you felt was great. Including something like this, with a way to list posts sorted by the number of "Thanks" (a couple of top-100 lists - ever, past year, past month) could serve the same purpose, and over time the posts with inside jokes would slip down while great posts about teams or technical advice would filter to the top, ideally.