Good idea !! Hopefully the WU's start pouring in so we all can boost this project !! ( I would like to have the silver/gold coming to my "awards" )

Hi, actually on one hand a good idea, on the other hand, traditionally interaction with the project scientists upon posting of updates in encouraged.

For those who like to find ALL the scientists posts quickly, refer to Posts by Science Project Representatives providing an access point to them all from oldest to newest.

The future forum software will have stickies for contributions we'd like to stay on top though and I'm sure that function will be utilized to keep their posts at the top.

[offtopic]The badge comments in pretty much every thread we look these days start to become a little detracting. If we can keep threads ON-TOPIC. Enough been said too about the work supply. That has a thread too, and is exactly why it becomes difficult to follow any discussion anywhere... they are all over the place.

Thanks all for their restraint in this matter. /offtopic]

I don't think so. This is a social forum, as well as a technical forum. Posts with little content may not be valuable to you, but they still have value. They aren't strictly off-topic.

Yes, WCG need to work harder to make status updates visible and relevant - but they are making progress in this area.

Why not raise the level of dialogue? Asking the scientists relevant questions is a good way to keep these threads interesting for everyone.

Yeah, this is good idea.