Mind if I'd use it or a variation from it next time? Seems alot more elegant than calling them "stupid kids that pollute the suggestion-forums with sucky/already suggested suggestions". Maybe... "Bland Bunch"?

Anyways, hatting seems like a neat idea, however, I can well imagine it being useless against spam, and asking for stickys in the suggestion forum will probably be a rather rare event. I think we'd only need 3 stickys in total: One for the really good suggestions(Lug's thread), one guide for how to post a good suggestion(which may already reduce the spam quite a bit, providing some people actually are trying to make the game better instead of just having their idea into the game, and a list of stuff being suggested countless times(right now such a list is incredibly useless, but as soon as we could get one as sticky... this would be really frikkin' awesome). You can't stop the inflow of crappy ideas altogether anyway, so why not instead focus on giving new, but honest and reasonable suggesters some help to plan their suggestions out better? Better planned out suggestions mean happier reviewers, which equals better reviews, which equals a happy suggester, which equals them trying to become better at suggesting in case it didn't work this time which equals in them instead of becoming bitter about them bein incompetent and devolving into flaming noobs. All this contributes to a change of the incredibly cold and cynical tone of the suggestions-forum, and overall better suggestions.
Hatting does have its limits, for example it will never be a useful way to delete and point out spam to be removed. Banning also won't be an option, because people can just alternate over and over and over and over and over... hrngh! It results in nothing but more annoyance and possible nicknames for other players wasted. However, if we make the whole getting-started thing as soft as silk, with tutorials and lists helping them suggesting a great suggestion, we can choke most of the spammers at their origin: Being frustrated suggesters that think that the opinions of others are unfair, due to their incompetence to make proper suggestions.

I think one of the most major problems about the suggestion-forum... every suggestion-forum in existence ever is that there always lacks that little extra-help for suggestion-newbs to get started with suggesting stuff. If we ever get the power to tell admins and mods what to do(that sounded harsh, rather... directing them), our first priority should be to make the access as easy as possible. Not primary banning griefers, not wastig the time trying to delete all the spam, but rather, trying to solve the problem in the constructive way of offering people as much help as possible.

This all seems pretty "Well duh!" to some people, but I think it's important to note that in the case we indeed get the powers, our absolute first priority should be giving the ongoing Bland Bunch the tutorials they need for their first successes. Because happy posters don't become eeevil. Why do impatient kids become flamers? Because they are incompetent and blame their failures on others. The logical conclusion? Gift them some competence.

My point in a nutshell: If we get these kind of powers, we shouldn't waste our time discussing spam-deletion and user-banning, but rather try to make the suggestions-forum as newbie-friendly as possible. Because good posters don't become Blandaxt.