Seen this on some of the other boards, thought it'd be a good addition to DS. On the NWN board, each user can set threads to always be at the top of the list for themselves, so they don't have to go looking, or click special links to find the stuff they want quickly.
Basically, it'd be a button you click, like the view first unread, and it would float to the top, to remove it you click the same button and it goes back to normal.
Would make life a bit easier for the folks on Welcoem to the Shadows I think.

There's already a similar feature, whereby you click the link to Track a particular thread. You can then set up options such as email notifications, etc. You can easily follow all of your 'tracked' threads with one click once logged in.

I know, but that's not on the main forum pages you normally see. You have to go elsewhere to see it. This would function transparently for the user.