So I've been thinking about these for a while, and today I decided the time had come to go ahead and suggest them.
First of all, I'd like to see a system of attaching flair to specific questions, like they have in /r/askscience. Doing so would be useful for keeping the board organized and making it easy for contributors to find questions they can best provide answers for, as well as allowing all users to easily find out if their question has recently been answered, as well find related questions that might also interest them.
Second, I suggest nominations begin for a Post of the Week, after the fashion of /r/DaystromInstitute. This would allow the community to highlight particularly insightful or interesting discussions, as well as show off some of the best we have to offer here.
It is my sincere belief that implementing either of these would serve our continuing goal of making discussion on this subreddit the best and most informative that it can be.
Second, I suggest nominations begin for a Post of the Week, after the fashion of /r/DaystromInstitute. This would allow the community to highlight particularly insightful or interesting discussions, as well as show off some of the best we have to offer here.
We already have Sunday's Rest and Reflection post, I've often seen notable posts from the week brought up there. I don't think a single "top" post would be a great idea, simply because it devalues the other answers, especially as the most prominent posts are based on reddit popularity, and so will always tend towards WW2/Rome or things which are taught prominently in American High Schools. If they're nominated posts, who judges? The flairs? The users? The mods?
In regards to your first suggestion, it is a topic that we have had suggested from time to time, and one that we have considered, but we have decided against implementing such a flair system as questions so often don't fit neatly into a single category.
For the second, make sure to check out the Sunday Day of Reflection Post, which would seem to fill a similar role to what you suggest. Users can highlight the best answers they saw in the past week.
Hi! A similar question came up yesterday; catch up with the discussion here