I don't have a simple answer for that STEADFAST. There are so many threads, breaking news is often hard to keep up with outside of those posting and following a thread. We try to keep up with keeping threads in their appropriate forum, such as moving some to awaiting trial or others.....but without input from our members whom we rely on for that info sometimes things get missed.
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The bolded part is my point. That's what this proposed thread would solve.
I'm thinking of it being a sticky thread where each case's active posters would post to give others a heads up about an important development and provide a link to the discussion thread for that particular case.
Not a place that moderators would need to post in or find cases for.
Most cases have die-hard followers, but there are many other posters who might have drifted off because they became involved in other cases or because the discussion had gone to a place that didn't interest them, or they became frustrated by a lack of information.
We've all got unfinished cases that we barely remember because so much time has passed, but we'd be extremely interested if there was some movement in them. Also often you just get tired of clicking on a case when you see it in New Posts" only for the post to say "bump" or "here's hoping there's closure" or "no news" a hundred different times. You stop checking it after a while and you would never know the hundred-and-first time would be an important development that you'd like to discuss with others.
Really, my idea would draw traffic to many different threads.
The titles would be the appropriate prefix followed by the original thread title. The text of the posts would merely be a link to the discussion thread for each case
Example of how the thread might look:
Suspect Named ! Husband in Cleveland Kills Wife
Trial Begins OK -- Mary Doe, 33, Tulsa, Missing 5/5/09
Verdict In Serial Killer Active in Florida?
Arrest! CA -- John Joe, 19, Chula Vista, Missing 5/6/09
New Evidence Body Discovered in Desert Outside Phoenix
POI Named Cold Case -- Child Murdered, 1977
Members could scan the list periodically for cases they recognize or that might interest them. I reiterate, NOT something the mods would have to bother with -- hard to violate TOS by posting a link to a WS thread.