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IF

"LATEST POSTS"

does not include ALL the LATEST POSTS regardless of forum,

PERHAPS, the software could be changed to allow the user to select which fora would be included in THE USER'S "LATEST POSTS" stream???

Perhaps that would help sort some of the abuse of threads out.

Also, John, I mentioned above . . . part of the following . . .

What about when a post was being entered, the user would have to select a priority: Say 1-4 or some such--as to

WHAT PRIORITY DOES THIS POST HAVE IN YOUR ESTIMATION OF:

"FR PRIORITY" =

FR1, FR2, FR3, FR4, FR5 . . . say . . .

1 = UTMOST RELEVANCE AND IMPORTANCE TO THE REPUBLIC AND FR'S GOALS RELATED TO THE REPUBLIC.

2 = OF INTEREST AND RELATED RELEVANCE TO THE HEALTH OF THE REPUBLIC BUT NOT CENTRAL TO FR'S PRIORITIES FOR THE REPUBLIC AND FR and/or NOT URGENT TIME-WISE.

3 = OF INTEREST AND RELATED RELEVANCE TO THE HEALTH OF THE REPUBLIC BUT QUITE OFF IN THE FUTURE OR RELATED TO HISTORY OF SAME. LOWEST PRIORITY OF POSTS RELATED TO HEALTH OF THE REPUBLIC.

4 = OTHER NON-OFF-THE-WALL; NON-TIN-FOIL; NON-BIZARRE . . . e.g. SPORTS, HUMAN INTEREST, PRAYER THREADS, RESEARCH TOPICS NOT CENTRAL TO HEALTH OF THE REPUBLIC; COMPUTERS, MOVIES, EVENTS, MUSIC, PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY ETC.

5 = OTHER--OFF-THE-WALL; BIZARRE, TIN-FOIL, CRAZY HUMAN BEHAVIOR, SILLINESS, HUMOR, ETC.

*******AND*****

a guesstimated INTEREST INVENTORY:

I1, I2, I3, I4

FOR ALL POSTS

I1 = POSTER GUESSTIMATES THAT ALMOST ALL USERS WOULD BE INTERESTED IN THEIR POST REGARDLESS OF TOPIC.

I2 = POSTER GUESSTIMATES THAT 60-80% OF ALL USERS WOULD BE INTERESTED IN THEIR POST REGARDLESS OF TOPIC.

I3 = POSTER GUESSTIMATES THAT 30-60% OF ALL USERS WOULD BE INTERESTED IN THEIR POST REGARDLESS OF TOPIC.

I4 = POSTER GUESSTIMATES THAT LESS THAN 30% OF ALL USERS WOULD BE INTERESTED IN THEIR POST REGARDLESS OF TOPIC.

THEN, THE SOFTWARE COULD BE CONFIGURED, I assume, such that a user could

CONFIGURE THEIR READING OF "LATEST POSTS" to consider BOTH PRIORITY rankings AS WELL AS WHICH FORA WOULD BE INCLUDED IN THE LISTING OF POST HEADINGS TO BE COMPILED IN THEIR PERSONAL LISTING OF "LATEST POSTS."

AND, ANY PRIORITY OF FR1-3 AND/OR I1-I2

WOULD EITHER

BE LISTED IN THE "LATEST POSTS" LISTING AS A HEADING (DEPENDING ON WHETHER IT WAS APPROPRIATE PER FORUM POSTED IN, OR NOT--THAT IS--ALL THE BREAKING NEWS AND OTHER HIGH VALUE, HIGH CATEGORY POSTS WOULD BE LISTED IN THOSE FORA REGARDLESS)

AND

OTHER HIGHER PRIORITY POSTS FROM OTHER FORA WOULD HAVE A 1-2 LINE ALERT FILLER LISTED IN ALL "LATEST POSTS" EVERY 30 POSTS FOR SAY 30 MINUTES REGARDLESS OF THE SETTINGS OF THE READING USER.

I think such would considerably bring order and discrimmination to such issues without losing the robust flavor of FR and the great "FRONT PORCH" flavor of so much that we share here.

It would take some getting used to in addition to no small effort on John's part. But I think it could really help the flow of our sharing as well as limit chaff for those who really needed and wanted the chaff limited. Yet, those who had the time or on slow news days or insomniacs could enjoy the whole nine yards when they felt like it, too.

Responses, reactions, rebuttals?