RE:Canon research, the thing that always goes wrong with having set posts for certain stuff is that people eventually stop checking the posts, and questions go unanswered. It works on a message board, when replying to a thread bumps it, or where you can sticky a thread to the front page, but on LJ, where backdating isn't even an option for communities, the system doesn't really fit. I say linking to a bunch of canon resources in the userinfo is a great idea, but trying to stick all research question posts into one place is probably not going to help anyone.