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It's not a bad idea. Even so, a lot of the time, the only reason for me to need to keep track of that sort of thing in forums is because I want to see if anyone is talking directly to me. I always thought that a notification area where you can see when people quoted you would be cool, but I also understand that there are typically performance or "reasonability" restrictions on a feature like that, especially with the scale of this site.
Not to say that my feature and yours couldn't coexist. That said, it's likely that your suggested feature would have performance implications as well - I'd assume that more data would have to be retrieved per thread to be able to obtain that information, even if the information is cached or stored somewhere when you post instead of constantly pulled from the database.
I'd say that the best way to consider weeding out the posts you don't care about, or getting relevant information to you over the rest of the noise, is to disregard the structure when brainstorming and think outside the box. Personally, I'm unsure as to what will happen concerning all this, but I think that there's a lot of ambition going on behind the scenes to make these forums better, and not just by tacking features onto the already existing product. Of course, that argument could be applied to many feature suggestions here, even my own, and your idea certainly would be nice regardless.