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News and Rumor discussion occasionally gets derailed by tangential or slightly off-topic discussion, often when new rumors are slowly trickling in. This results in a forum that probably has to be heavily policed and kept track of by mods as they sometimes have to temporarily lock or steer discussion when it veers off strict discussion of news and rumors.

If the existing "Exalt" function could be reworked for that forum to make "Exalt" appear as simply a "News/Rumor" button, that would allow users to flag a particular comment on the thread as containing a bit of new info about the topic. Then a function to allow people to sort by "News/Rumors" would let people simply looking for information quickly find it in the thread, and discussion would not have to be so heavily policed.

You might also automatically flag posts by the thread OP as News/Rumor because often the threads are curated by a representative of the company the thread is about.

Certainly there may be some people who incorrectly flag posts but sorting through the few that get incorrectly tagged would almost certainly be easier than sorting through the often 10+ pages of discussion that separate actual rumors.

Some forums I use make use of a thread marking feature to flag specific posts in a thread. That would be really helpful for this, allowing the rumor posters to flag their rumors and then people can just cycle over discussion to read the meat and potatoes, but I'm guessing actually implementing that would be quite time consuming for Lego.