DD, I'm sorry you are taking heat for a good intention. Don't worry about answering everyone who wants to complain.
Perhaps this is helpful though-- there is a simple approach to the problem you indentified, of making something easier to find if people search. That is to change the subject line of the post in the existing thread-- we do it all the time with Lyric Add's to make a song title pop up visibly in a search. (See the subject line of this post of mine.) That would not help any with the problem of attracting people to an existing discussion, but doing that can be accomplished with a few PMs directed to people who you think have some expertise to share in a given area.