featured posts, how to implement
 

So I had an idea for a "best of STR" page (my website's acronym is STR). Basically to showcase things like "most helpful posts", "best writer", "best ride report", etc etc.

I'm undecided whether to:

1. copy and paste the post to a static vbulletin template (or static HTML page) or
2. have somewhat of a directory with links to the actual posts

Would going with #1 be a violation of google's 'duplicate content' policy? Or maybe I should do the first couple sentences with a "read more" type link?

I have something somewhat similar about to happen with my board. I'm planning on doing the latter. That is the RSS style -snippet of the post with a read more link. And the directory idea can work with it as well.... It's simply a sitemap of your showcase when you think of it in SEO terms.