Sounds confusing...but I like the idea anyway.
Any time a topic gets over 100 posts on any message board (especially this one, where the posts tend to be very verbose), the topic becomes very difficult to follow unless you've been there since it started.
Ken's idea is definitely worth a shot. It may be too late to start with the topic on qualification, but we should try it the next time we've got a potentially big topic.
[edit] Looking at Ken's post again, I'd move 1a and 1b to another thread, and eliminate B entirely. We don't need comments telling others that they're stupid. Flaming isn't part of gracious professionalism. [/edit]
At the very least, we should try to create two seperate topics: one for general discussion (mainly comments), and one for questions about the subject of the topic.
One question for Brandon: would all of these extra topics bog down the CD server?