I'll offer a suggestion. Instead of going into each thread and moving it to the front making me needlessly open it to find out somebody who obviously has way too much time on their hands just put in a stupid message, why don't you just ignore the flame threads? If you don't like the content of a thread, then skip over it, but don't mark a ton of old stuff as new because you want it in front and inconvience everybody else to make you happy.