Thanks for all the interest, but of course the suggestions don't address the suggestion that I'm making about a possible feature.
What you are doing is proposing a workaround and of course you don't know the extent of the problem, the size of the forum, the size of our site team, or how busy we are generally.
Having to send personal messages to people and encouraging to use other software makes life even more difficult for us and also assumes that the people who are coming to the forum and posting the stories are sufficiently competent to be able to access and use that kind of software.
I really much rather that people simply address the suggestion I've made for a feature – or simply just to leave it. But whichever, it would be nice if there was such a feature.