Would it be possible to add some sort of little note by a thread to say that it contains a staff response? A lot of the time the mighty TSers reply to our own threads with BOUNTIES of awesome hints and whatnot about the future.
And you know what usually happens to those? They go on the clipboards of the oldbies and are used to link newbies to cool info, but they can't get everybody and most of the new people never see them! Even if they're chock full of cool details, like Stoot's recent answer to questions posed here: http://www.glitch.com/forum/general/15303/#reply-156898
So, please, some sort of 'Staff have SPOKEN!' notice next to a regular Joe Blow post (Sorry, Joe, your name was just appropriate here ;P) that contains a staff response.
Let the information flow!