I'm sure we all appreciate you trying to improve the forum Jaws but like cougar & others I find it annoying, it takes your eye off other threads that may be genuinely interesting/funny/worthwhile
I'm struggling to explain it but there is now something else to read that grabs your attention before you get to the thread title, its less invasive now you have toned it down a bit admittedly but I would guess most of us would read every thread without the need to have out attention drawn to one that the original poster thinks we have to read
I wonder how long it will be before every new thread has a pointless leader to it & the boards become messy or repetitive
As always its just a personal opinion but you did ask