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Your right there Id say. A rather well merited thread does not necessarily mean that the thread is all about the topic exposed in the thread title, but likely most will. In any case, well merited threads may well deem worth reading just by the sheer interest in how the conversation flow went on amongst the participants. Reading well merited threads is an alternative to last bumped thread, and could be interesting to have as an alternative innate forum feature. One can ultimately decide if the criteria is used or not at all.
Note: Its interesting to see on the Dashboard how the lists of most merited threads changes when you apply the date filter, and how, whatever you do, Wall Observer is always at the top
Note2: Added the number of meriters and merited per thread on the Dashboard.