# Let us mark the most interesting posts

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/let-us-mark-the-most-interesting-posts/89563>\
**Category:** Ruby-Forum\
**Created:** [March 21, 2007, 10:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/let-us-mark-the-most-interesting-posts/89563 "2007-03-21T10:41:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![mschwab](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@mschwab](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mschwab)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 10:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/let-us-mark-the-most-interesting-posts/89563/1 "2007-03-21T10:41:29Z")

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Time and again I’ve heard cautionary tales about how listservs lose  
their value and fun when they get too big. As someone who used to read  
much of ruby-talk and now exclusively uses the forum, I have found it  
harder to find the interesting stuff. It’s great that you have the  
number of replies listed as a visual cue to which topics are best. But  
I think it’d be really better to have metadata about individual posts  
too.

I know the 1-5 stars metaphor is tired and inane, but some way to  
register a positive ranking would be cool. Be it a check box, a field  
where we could input numbers, or a tagging feature, it could be nice to  
have a better way to dig look through the vast archives here and learn a  
lot real fast.

-Mike