Posted by Zebulost on May 15, 2000 at 17:11:24:
1. Get rid of the number after posts representing the number of replies, since you can see the replies right after the message anyway. Replace it with a number representing number of lines of text in the post (or word count).
2. Add a 'no text' checkbox to the posting form. If checked, the message is posted without linking the subject to anything.