In some Yahoo forums they have options for display on a particular threads(topics)
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Msg List "I would love to see this (out of the box?) for future versions of AF.
With large numbers of forums and posts this sort of functionality provides the user with an ability to scan posts at various depths of detail and choose to interact with that that interests them.
I suspect from conversations with our members this would increase participation in the forums as they can discern the dross from the interesting/useful material.
I like AF and one of the drawbacks is you have to go into everything to read/interact this increases the clicks as you go down what are essentially no exit roads. Seeing as the data is already there it would make sense to serve it up to readers/users in the most useful way (easy)
(remember... I like AF)
Alan