Can we have highlighting for QOTW stories that you've posted in?
I always find it difficult to keep up any sort of conversation/response in QOTW stories, cos I can never find them again.

Also, the number of replies indicated on the main page is often wrong - I clicked on a "2 replies" earlier and there were actually none. Stale data?
( Fronds are waving gently on, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 19:58, 6 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Sure, I can get that in no problem
My guess is that the thread originally looked likes this:

POST
   |
   +- REPLY 1
          |
          +- REPLY 1.1
          |
          +- REPLY 1.2

And then REPLY 1 got deleted.

Reply 1.1 and 1.2 still exist (so there are technically still two replies), but there's just no easy way to see them at the moment.

The same problem exists on the other boards. The correct fix is to probably stop post-deletion nuking entire subthreads.
( robtoo is all out of gum, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 20:20, Reply)

An odd one we've noticed in offtopic
is that if the original poster goes back and edits their post after a bunch of replies are posted, the post count gets screwed. Example:
www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post672589
listed in /questions/offtopic as having seven replies. Dunno if that's related.
This one too:
b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post673884
Looks like it's only counting top-level posts after edits.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 20:29, Reply)

IMDB have a thing
that says "post deleted" in its place. That should be easy to implement. Rather than delete the post, just replace the text within the post and the username shown as something relevant.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 16:31, Reply)

or maybe
they are on your ignore list?
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 12:56, Reply)

Didn't think of that
But my ignore list entries are a good couple of years old, and there's only six of them.

Thanks Robtoo! That highlighting would be lovely.
( Fronds are waving gently on, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 19:21, Reply)

I've often thought this would be a good idea
as I usually forget about the interesting little convos you can often get into in the replies to posts :)
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 22:49, Reply)