Board format.
I never understood bubbling posts to the top like you suggest. You say that it is to make sure everyone sees the post. But by moving a recently replied to post to the top, you are displacing a more recently posted post...one that may or may not be more interesting to everyone. So you are doing the exact thing that you were trying to avoid in the first place (people missing posts).
All you have to do to make sure you see all of the posts is click on the top one before you leave AW. This should change the link color. Now you know where to start when you come back.
Especially on forums, like ours, that has lots of traffic. Many of the forums here receive a couple pages worth of new threads per day.
That's not to say that the current thread tracking is ideal, but it's better than bump to top.



