We have identified that allowing users to actively share their own content or that of other members could help grow the community and add value for our members.  Having seen the social bookmarking icons in the Ideas tool, how can we utilize this within all threads, or better yet, all posts? 

I envision this as either part of the signature, i.e., check box "Add Social Bookmarking Bar to my Signature," or embedded in the User sidebar of each post (again, maybe an opt-in feature).   Alternately, if not available on a post level, add the bar automatically to the title-bar area (on right?) of the first post in a thread. This perhaps would be a community-level auto-opt-in setting with an opt-out checkbox for the message composer.

This is about choices on how to share content - both at the community level and the thread/post level.  

I don't know about you, but we are integrating Twitter pretty heavily into our community suite, and we'd really like to see a more visible option to tweet about (or retweet) a blog article (than is available in the current Share module.

I really like the BackType 'Tweetcount'  feature for Wordpress blogs, which gives you the ability to twitter about the article, or retweet it, as well as showing how many people have done it already.

I'd like to see the (optional) ability to turn a feature like this on for a blog, and help in the syndication and promotion of our content.

I would really like to allow users to save their posting preferences for forum posts somewhere in their profile so if they want to consistently post with the same font, size, color, they don't have to update those selections with each post.

Suggestion:

It might be useful to have the ability to toggle a "hold for moderation" setting for users.   I believe moderation delays are available for blogs, but not forums presently..

How it might work:

If toggled, the member could post, and could see their submitted posts appear (perhaps greyed text) as a normal post in the conversation, but the post would not appear for other members until a moderator cleared it. 

The moderation flag would be set for the thread, and maybe some additional moderation icon to the side of the thread would appear alerting moderators that the thread contained posts that needed to be cleared.  Perhaps the post would appear greyed out, but in place for the moderators too, and it might have an "approve" button appear much like a kudo or accepted solution button appears on the right hand side of the post.  When clicked to approve, the post would become black text and normal - viewable by all.   If a mod didn't want to approve, they could use the pull down to take normal moderation actions - delete, move, etc.

The toggle function could be accomplished via a pull down, or a setting from the profile page (where mod / admin comments can be stored, along with bans displayed), or this might be done by a role that could be applied automatically or manually.

 Why I'm suggesting this:

The purpose of this idea is in the same line as another idea here which suggests auto-bans if the smut filter it triggered multple times within a certain interval.

In my case, I'm seeking alternative features that will help to curb some users that we might wish to place on probation, but not outright ban.   We have a couple members who post erratically - some of the their content is ok, and some fall in the category of profane rants, public reposting of moderators private counciling of them, etc.  Obviously short term bans may be a tactical solution, along with further moderation of their posted content, but the bans are less desireable in that it denies continued participation, even passive access to other help being provided, and moderation coverage may not be 24/7 and available moderators should not be consumed with "real time" damage control.

i think there should be a better way to see how many kudos a user has recieved In both profile and forum posts.

So there can be better ways for everyone to see how many kudos each user has!

Maybe under post count in the forum post and uder statistics.