I need PREFIX location suggestions / advice please

[Jah-Hools]

I love the idea of prefixes

The way they will be able to sort / grade discussion topics is very exciting

I used to hope that the forum moderators would roll up their sleeves and use forum tags to help make sence of everything but I guess and can now see that is just too much work for them to do. (big forum)

Of course prefix actually means 'at the beginning'... But the way prefixes are displayed is troublesome, in the following ways.

1) They make thread titles harder to read at a glance

2) They are added to the beginning of the (already short) RSS feed titles

So - can anyone suggest some prefix location tricks?

Some way to manage them better?

While writing this I thought of something that may have answered my own question - what about a mandatory drop down TAG menu with a set group of pre defined TAGs?

Anyhow..

I bet some of you VB Whizz'es out there have ideas, I am all ears.

Many thanks in advance,