Show marker in topic listing for topics user has particpated in

I find myself refreshing this page a lot -- http://drupal.org/tracker

It's a really good place to "take a temperature" of the site, I've discovered. The tracker is simply a stroke of brilliance. So simple an idea, so powerful an effect, especially on a site with a lot of post activity.

I have some experience "keeping tabs" on busy forums all day. Though most BBSes have many forums, usually there is only one that's getting all the eyeballs and posts. I think this tendency owes at least in part to the fact that most BBS scripts don't have this sort of "window on the site" thing. They call them "General Discussion Forum" or something like that. They can be lively places, to be sure. But what's compromised is the user ability to categorize content precisely without being relegated to a dusty corner of the site nobody visits.

The tracker page affords even the most esoteric subjects and discussions happening anywhere on the site a moment of equal visibility with the most popular nodes. That's really very cool, and arguably an example of The Long Tail, lol.

I know you're thinking "But, it's so easy to create and configure a page that displays all posts on a SQL site." That may be so, but on Drupal, the fact that it feels so "built in" makes all the difference. I'm speaking as both site creator and site visitor when I say this. I appreciate the tracker from both perspectives.

From the user perspective, I would like 2 suggest a tiny modification. It's something I found indispensable when keeping tabs on busy BBSes. When looking at the forum view, there is a small visual marker to distinguish threads to which I have contributed. I realize I could see all my own activity here -- http://drupal.org/tracker/108521 -- but you lose the big picture, and have no sense of yourself within it. Perhaps something as simple as a different link color? The idea is to be able to tell where you've been at a glance, so it can be anything really. Here's an old screenshot to show you what I mean -- http://porndata.net/files/my-mark-on-the-board.gif -- You see the little blue check boxes next to my name? The show me the threads where I have made at least one post. The exception is that in those 4 examples I also happened to have been the person who started the thread, and so they bear not only little blue check boxes but also my name.