It just occurred to me that maybe the hyperlinks of "related threads" that is listed under the title of many music/folk culture threads is a way of at least partially indexing Mudcat archives.

Has anyone ever made such a listing for BS threads? I'm particularly thinking of the threads on specific topics such as education, race & racism, physical health, mental health, politics by nation, and catastrophic events [such as Hurricane Katrina], and not the birthdays or other congratulatory threads or the obit threads?

My comment about congratulatory or obituary threads is not meant to discount the value of those threads to this online community.

It just seems to me that for the purpose of research for Mudcatters and others it would be helpful to at least have a partial listing of subjects such as a related threads listing for non-music threads.

I recognize that the moderators are already hard working volunteers. If hyperlinks of related subjects have not been added to BS threads yet, and if this idea is accepted by Joe and Max, then perhaps individual Mudcat members could volunteer to make lists for the topics that they are interested in. Those volunteers could then send a starter list on the specific BS topic of their choosing to Joe for possible listing under thread titles on that subject. And those volunteers or other folks would continue to send additional thread URLs/names to Joe for possible addition to that initial listing of related threads. This is the way it works with music threads, right?

I'm just thinking out loud. I'm curious what other folks think about this idea.