Patent ID: 8327276

Claim:
A method comprising: forming a user interface configured to expose a community forum to a plurality of clients such that the clients interact with postings in the community forum via a network; providing in the user interface a selectable portion associated with at least one user posting that is selectable by a user to: express agreement with the user posting; and associate with the user posting, and wherein selection of the portion causes updating of a counter configured to track a number of users associated with a posting and are used to determine which user posting is most important; responsive to a selection by the user of the selectable portion, storing data associating the user with the corresponding user posting on the community forum, such that the association describes a relationship between the user and the corresponding user forum; and determining the priority for generating a response to one or more user postings based upon one or more corresponding user associations, wherein the response is generated by an owner of the community forum, wherein the owner of the community forum automatically generates and sends a notification of the response to one or more users based on the determined priority.