Stickies are a great idea, but since the *cleanout* i dont bother looking at any of them anymore.
I think there's a general misperception among people who would either write/read a sticky and everyone else on their actual usefulness.
Most people don't read them. Not only do we have the anecdotal evidence that users don't read them (e.g. how many "virus" threads are started despite having a virus sticky FAQ? How many how do I hook up my computer to a TV threads do we get despite having a sticky, etc), we also have hard, data based on actual page visits and user behavior tracking on the site to prove they are very underutilized, especially by new members.
Stickies are just not the best way to communicate information in most cases. There are more effective channels that can be used to do what they're actually being used for.
But since Admin/Mod has cleaned them up, Deeming them of no relevance anymore i havnt been bother to check them out.
I know there still out there in the achives and i have a few Bookmarked but in all honesty after the effort gone into writing them and then removing them i havnt been bother to link people anymore.
Just for the record, to add a little reality into this, almost all the stickies were written by the staff anyway, and 99% of the removed ones were staff generated. So please stop acting like we went through and hatefully removed user content that took years to write as we cackled all the way back to the staff forums.
Not sure why you have all this angst about removing old, outdated, unused stickies?
And I'm not saying we're not interested in the information, just that there are other ways to share it beside a sticky.
And just wondering Schweb
does this mean there isnt a democracy when it comes to having certain content on the forum is it because your not a fan ??
Just trying to work out the "Chain of Command" here is all
It's never been a democracy, not sure why you thought that.
We have Community Guidelines which right from the start limits what you can say and do here. As for types of content, the forums we have, and how information is shared, that has always been a decision of the staff based on the focus of this site.
This forum cannot be everything and just because you personally find something valuable doesn't mean it actually is for the majority.
And as a side note, just be lucky that I don't go on a drama fit in the forum about certain members' attitudes and attack them personally like you just did to me in this thread...just think about that for a bit.