Wilki: My official duties here are to read the forums regularly, summarize the hot topics at the time, and include them in a report for Monday morning. I also am asked to post various things from time to time by other members of the team, usually those include marketing updates, change lists, feedback threads, etc.

I do read most of the traffic in this forum, but I do not read every post. However, anything that generates more than a few replies is almost certain to be read.

Reading and participating in these forums is not my main role here at EA. While it does take up a lot of my time, I'm kept quite busy researching things for the developers, looking into situations that players email me about, writing marketing promos for the website and patch message, creating graphics, meeting with and talking to the developers about just about everything to do with UO, etc. Uhall is just one small part of overall community, and probably is something I give more time to than I should, but I'm an old boardie, and habits die hard I suppose :-)

As for marking threads, I do not have any way to do that other than posting "I read this." at the time that I read it. If I did that for every thread I read, I'd be spamming, and the Dev Post List wouldn't be very useful to anyone. However, when I come across a good idea that I pass on, I almost always reply to the thread saying just that.

Hope that helps!