Thank you for the thoughts and for soliciting opinions/suggestions/whatever. You do yoeman work here and that gives you special creds for suggesting improvements.

That said, perhaps there's a way to allow Level 11 monks (and up) to RECOMMEND at node for "good" labeling but to keep that recommendation viewable ONLY BY the Q&A Editors and Gods. My reasoning is similar to that offered by Discipulus: If (and I'm not certain that this is the case; just suspicious) the best nodes list attracts votes to its members surely a public "good" flagging would do likewise or maybe even more so.

And while the "extra votes" incentive notion has many merits (think how many times we see comments along the line of "I'd upvote this again if I could....") enacting it would surely skew (against!) the rankings of older-but-still-excellent nodes which are no longer attracting active general attention. OTOH, maybe we would give level-11 Monks the opportunity to upvote a node twice, within their current allocation of votes for the price of writing a node with that comment PLUS an explanation of why the reply to which the comment in addressed is so deserving.

Re Beech's suggestion (above) on tags/keywords: I'm inclined to agree with Tye's remark at Re: Keyword Nodelet / Tagging documentation (vote > privilege)):

" My experience with PM leads me to believe that voting has a much better chance of resulting in a useful categorization system than privilege (the tag adders, tag deleters, and considerers) does.

" My bet is that privilege won't result in a very useful tag system and, even if it starts to, the effect won't last."

Again, thanks for your work to improve PM.