hellsatan:
Here's my suggestion.. You could add a little option to any thread something like 'this is a story'. This can be controlled by usergroup/forum/whatever
If 'this is a story' is set to yes the whole templates change and you'll see the story. The rest is easy:
You can pull off someone's threads with a query like
SELECT * FROM thread WHERE author = userid AND isstory = 1
In this way you can get the votings, the topten, most replies (comments) etc.
And on another page you could read _all_ stories off the database (SELECT * FROM thread WHERE isstory = 1)
The possibilites are endless.. And since this is using normal threads with just different templates all AJAX features remain and you don't have to take care off them
JirQUEST: this can be added, too