That's a good distinction you make about repetition. The first time it's a mystery, or a puzzle, to be solved. I can sure understant the aggravation of repeating the conclusion a hundred times. Maybe one of the policies for this particular board is that if a quorum says "been there, done that", trying to continue the discussion is defined as a flame.
The idea of voting on the novelty of a thread and automatically editing it has some interesting ramifications. What's not pruned away becomes a "self-organizing FAQ", a kind of institutional memory. That's one to add to the ever-growing list of cool features to add. It'll happen, or something like it, because I plan to add a generic voting system anyway.
In case you're still up tonight, there's a notice in the lower-left corner of the front page that's kind of hard to spot to the effect that I'll be rebooting the server at 11 to install the Code Red patch. This is to prevent my server from attacking whitehouse.gov tomorrow...tempting, but nah, I have a duty to the Internet...
--Robert
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