Teen Internet Marketer

When posting around on forums today and seeing them often go on many tangents, I had an idea: what would happen if forums had a trackback system like blogs?

I believe this would be a good idea. vBulletin’s “related posts” and “tagging” features have already started linking forum posts together - however, some times, I find that I want to reply to a post, but make it slightly off-topic. How will a trackback system work?

The way I envision it, when you post a reply, you should be able to post it as a “tangent topic”. Afterwards, a new thread will be created, and a post in the main topic will be made with a link. Also, near the bottom of each thread page, it would be listed as a “related thread” or “response to a thread”.

What do you think about using this as a new method to organize and link forum posts? I believe that forums are sometimes too linear, and information should be better linked, like in wikis. What do you think?

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