Possibly useful measuring "trick"

[Aussie_Don]

Probably the best 'tool', to mark threads you have an interest in, is our tags.

At the bottom of the page you should see a window or box that says 'Tags for this thread".

Over on the right a button that says "Add/Edit Tags".

You can add up to three tags to a thread.

Then, at any later date do a tag search and only those threads with the tag will show up.

OK, that works in one sense -- At risk of massive topic drift, the problem
that I'm trying to solve is, "I want to know what "the rabble" in their
collective wisdom think is most important/useful."

Not sure what the best way to achieve this might be.

-Don