[SUGGESTION] Why do chatty and not interesting comments show up in red tracker?
Red tracker is a really good idea as it would allow us to get some news quickly. The problem is that most of the time, Reds do not post any news. They chat like any other users do on these forums. I hope they are having fun, but are these their comments really eligible to be picked between the most interesting comments on forums?
Defenitelly these comments carry no information for anyone:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/uYzAQ.png
As I was saying, Reds are, just as anybody else, surely free to post whatever they want (within rules), but my idea is that they should be given option to mark their comments (not)interesting and therefore control their appearance in Red tracker. To prevent some important posts being lost I personally suggest that the system should assume that the comment is interesting by default.
This is a simple GUI for such function. By default, there's a red icon and the post appears in Red tracker:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/8fK5H.png
But if Red user wants just to post something for fun or have more personal discussion not reviewed by whole community, he can click the icon to turn it white:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/FwvR1.png
Further improvement could automatically assume white icon in threads where white icon was used last.