Yea, I can see Trotter's point. But, with all the talk that used to happen with Dave and Trotter pushing for TechForums2 and formulating ideas in the mod section, we came up with some pretty good ideas. You could use the feed as an engine to get the quality out of people posting. For instance, make a forum called "Featured Posts" or whatever, then based on the attitude/quality/respect/kudos/calories per day the dude eats/WHATEVER ... let people one at a time, make posts in there... but articles this forum would be special:
1) Admin/Smods/mods/and "Special members" can post
2) everyone else can view (not reply)
3) These posts would normally be the type of posts you seein the "Tips and Tricks" or set as stickies... or... any one of Osiris's posts in the past year.. hehe
4) Set the RSS feed only from this section
5) you encourage forum activity/integrity/less crapola
6) Could get a contest of some sort started where members vote for their favorite articles and then the most voted gets moved to the section for feeds.
The RSS feeds one time a day or whatever and then the user can choose out of the 20 articles that it publishes .. how many to view.
Using something like a RSS feed to promote fun and more promising posts just seems logical. I don't know too many people that wouldn't take pride in seeing their own post show up in their feed viewer or browser, igoogle page or whatever and say "Hey... I wrote that"
I think that 99% of the people I know would feel proud and encouraged.