"Maybe there should be a "opinions/vanities" heading on the sidebar."
Click here and you will have the vanity (AKA Your Opinions/Questions) topic as a sidebar.
I guess I will also touch on vanity postings being moved. If you write a vanity, and post it to vanity and not to things like extended, breaking, fr, frontpage, and so forth, the chances that it will be moved (or, in your terms, SPIKED) become miniscule.
Unless it is a one line vanity, in which case the chances go up substantially.
Regards, LM