So this was a response to a request I made to have a sticky thread with links to common, often used, best practices threads created by forum members.
I frequent the VWVortex and they have a decent system (not perfect and not the only way to get to this) for gathering the links to threads around a particular subject. In the VW forum’s case it would require someone gather up the links, post them and try to maintain them.
In this case, it would be a self maintaining system that would be created by users who placed Best of in the tags at the top of the thread. Now clearly my thread for hoses is not Best of worthy, it was done as an experiment, but LarryC’s AC thread clearly is a best of, as is the Megasquirt thread and so on.
Basically it is a means of having easy access to so many of the how to’s that get buried in the forum as we forget them and so on. A it would be an easy way to find a how to for established members who know there was a great thread on a subject but can no longer remember who or the exact name and whose search foo is deficient (me) and B for new members as a resource mine that we can point people to so we don’t need to do a use the search you idiot (not how this forum runs but you get my gist) or let me find that for you (which is what we often do, it happily)
So basically we could have a Best of Cooling, Best of Electrical, best of carburetor etc or what ever nomenclature we all think works best. It’s getting the tag into the top of the thread or how we anoint the Best of to a thread, that is the interesting question.
Pics below of what VWVortex looks like. No need to be slavish to what they do, more how can we use the strength of the this forum’s built in features to get more out of the hard work many have spent to create a great thread.
So that was my thought, What does everyone else think?