Non-Sticky of New Articles?

[MrMastodonFarm]

Anyone else think this might be a better way to go?

I find myself totally skipping over the topics that are stickied because I know some are always there (rules etc) and find myself going right down to the first new topic. I think if new articles weren't stickied they might thrive by themselves. I always seems to miss Game Takes, and didn't notice Tilly's newest peice until much later then it was there because I just skim past the stickied topics sometimes.. I might be the only one.. but I'd be suprised.

Thoughts?

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

Anyone else think this might be a better way to go?

I find myself totally skipping over the topics that are stickied because I know some are always there (rules etc) and find myself going right down to the first new topic. I think if new articles weren't stickied they might thrive by themselves. I always seems to miss Game Takes, and didn't notice Tilly's newest peice until much later then it was there because I just skim past the stickied topics sometimes.. I might be the only one.. but I'd be suprised.

Thoughts?

It's an old forum joke:

Q-"How do you make people ignore a thread"
A-"Sticky it"

I often miss some stickies, I'm just so used to ignoring them.
Freway's sticky is great, but I always forget about it because it is rarely posted to and Freeway's updates don't trigger the software to show the thread the same way a new post does.

It is tricky - all the stickies are valuable and need to be accessible, but the fact they are always there means they get ignored.

[photon]

Yeah, I've always thought the same thing.. stickies do get ignored, but it's good to draw attention to specific threads.

For news items like the game story and Tilly's writeup, eventually I'd like to highlight those in a seperate place (on the side above the weather thing), but that won't happen until we get a front page content management system.. which we haven't been able to find anyone to be able to do unfortunately.

I should put a flash tag around new ones!

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by photon

I should put a flash tag around new ones!

Or some kind of a "NEW" flag that last 24 or 48 hours.