It seems that doing something to help us filter through the messages would be nice. The OT could be another way of letting us know where a thread gets out of its original topic.

>In Usenet, when a person takes a message off topic, they'll change the topic to something like: "OT New Topic (Was: Old Topic)". If there was a way for a person to do that here, or, if changing the topic in a branch is impossible, to mark it as OT, that would help a lot. Usually a person taking a subject OT knows it. It's not a perfect system, because the person would have to remember to do it, but it's no worse than the stars. So, stars for answers, OTs for OT in the thread. Makes sense to me.
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>>A nice thing to add would be to indicate to what extent a message really respects the subject of the thread.
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>>There could be different colors to indicates if a message is still really related, took a different direction or way off the thread.