Dear Don,
I have voted for it.
I agree you that the core of Moodle has always been the forum. My major focus is on forum when I teach in Moodle.
I suppose it's necessary to add a new tool to make it sticky. And I don't think it is the same to move the post to another place because it may seem not so important without the original background. And people may need more information about the context to understand a isolate post.