A stupid idea probably!
 

Not that I have a problem with the way anything works just now but it would be useful if a solution could be voted for by members and the 'winning' thread promoted to a HOW-TO.

I don't really see what you mean. a ten post thread is really not a good candidate for turning verbatim into a LinuxAnswer. the point of an LA / HOWTO is to be an authoratative guide for something, which is something that a complicated thread almost never is even close to.

yeah I get that, its just that sometimes the answer to a given problem is really hard to find, it isn't that the information isn't there it's just obscured. Either way I didn't think it would be something that would be easy to achieve because of the complete randomness of a thread. The main problem would be that it would need to be rewritten I guess. Was just a fleeting idea that passed through my somewhat strange thought process today.

Rather than voting for a thread, if there is one you think is worthy then prune it down into a step by step guide and submit it as an LA.