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1. You basically want to make it easier to get to the information people want to read as well as make it easier to follow lengthy topics, right?
2. It has some promising aspects. I would then be able to keep up with this thread about the new CE qualifications. Even though I've been with it from the beginning, I can't keep up with it even though I'm on here several times a day. If I could quickly pick out the stuff I wanted, I could handle it better.
3. This could also prove to be too confusing. For my post, everyone will have to refer to your list of 5 categories. This will take some organization to work and even then it may be too cumbersome and confusing for the greater good.
4. I would suggest putting the theory to practice in some fashion as soon as possible after the basic bugs are worked out. Like Andy B. said - you can theorize all you want, but the sooner you build it the better off you're gonna be (that's not exact).
5. An alternative may be to somehow moderate important threads. When something comes up like this CE information, maybe it would make sense to reserve the opening to a small group of selected moderators (maybe not according to the current term, but you get the idea) and then have them keep a close eye on what's going on. It may be too much power to allow them to totally screen every post before it gets posted, but maybe they could be able to pull things off a thread or ban someone from it. I realize that moderators do some of this now, but I'm suggesting something more like an assigned moderator for a thread. This has downsides too - it would take a lot of time off someone's hands to moderate a large thread.
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