Democratized OP editing is a good idea.
My second vote is for a community driven featured feed with up and down voting so users can help percolate up the most interesting content on the site for a given period.
First, to control spam, each user can only cast one featured vote per 24 hours, let’s say.
So, each post would have a “vote to feature” on it, and anyone can press it cast their vote for that post and it will climb up the list for each vote given within a period. After a certain point to clear the way for more content the time on the board will weight down the post. This would compliment the staff curated feature board, i think.
What am am not accounting for is the drop in thread quality due to featuring posts, but i am thinking if there’s more featured stuff, the new feature shitposting would be more spread out… maybe i hope.
Also, if you’re not using it, you should check out the RxJS library. Become an Aryan Observable and leave the neighborly Promises behind.