Yeah, the tagging of serious threads is a good idea if you're concerned with overmoderation, Pig. In Toriprime, the idea came about from the opposite way - people were concerned that everybody was shitting on everybody else too much and all threads would inevitably descend to crap. Some people were angry that they could never have a decent, serious thread there.

I suggested that the community (since it's a premium board) should be able to select the level of moderation they want in their thread. Every thread is assumed to be unmoderated UNLESS the OP tags it as [Serious].

I modded the board and it worked fine for ages until an over-zealous ninja closed a thread that wasn't tagged. I reopened it, wrote 'bawww' or something and was promptly fired. I haven't had TP for a while now (I'll have it back once Parrot wins CL) so I can't comment on the state of it, but the idea of users tagging threads that they want someone to moderate is still a good idea I reckon'.