Hi OSTexo,

> One thing I think that would be good is the ability to
> tag and follow posts and have those show up at the
> top in case I want to follow a thread to its conclusion.

Actually that is already supported. To use it, you need to edit the options for a thread, you can do that either by clicking on the little icon to the left of the thread title in the threads list, or there is an "Edit thread options" link at the bottom of the thread's message list.

There you can mark a particular thread as "interested" or "subscribed", and in the View dropdown at the top of the threads list you can pick to show only High interest (marked as interested) or Subscribed threads to filter the threads list.

I think that when you post inside of a thread it will automatically get marked as high interest, there is an option for disabling that under Options > Forum options > Display > "Automatically mark threads I post in as High Interest" .

- Michael