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FYI, if you go into
http://forums.macnn.com/index.php and then click Show New Posts, you do not see the stickies, especially pertaining to the Intel switch.
You only see the stickies when you go into a certain forum, such as the MacNN lounge.
Personally, unless I'm looking for a certain thing or catching up after some time away, I only do the Show New Posts search and go into threads from there. If others do it the same way, they also may not be seeing the stickies.
Next ...
While I can understand the need for uniformity and to weed out the eleventy billion Intel-related threads, I do hope the mods are using a little bit of judgment. For instance, the original thread related to the discussion on Intel possibly taking over Apple was a grey are. True, it did come an hour or so after the sticky (which I never saw), but it obviously has rung a bell with some people as two other threads have popped up on it in the interim.
So, if a new Intel thread warrants keeping, please keep it. If not, lock as usual.
That's my 2¢.
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The "new posts" list does exactly what it should: show new posts. Sticky threads are included, but only in pure chronological order; they are not stuck at the top.
Announcements are not threads, and thus do not show in the new posts list.
Everyone is expected to check the forum where they intend to post for existing threads and announcements.
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Originally Posted by tooki
Everyone is expected to check the forum where they intend to post for existing threads and announcements.
That's my point. Maybe they should but I'd be willing to bet that many aren't. I know I don't go looking for stickies when I'm checking out the day's posts and I'm here every days.
Can the stickies be included on the front page? So you see them right when you go to the index page?
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Originally Posted by Randman
Can the stickies be included on the front page? So you see them right when you go to the index page?
Or at least the announcements? Most announcements are not forum-specific and could well be placed on the front page as well as inside each forum.
Furthermore, as it is now, the announcements are very inconspicuous. I never use the 'new posts' list, only the forum lists, but I still only saw the new announcement late last night. Perhaps changing the layout of the announcements in the first week they're up (you could make the background blink neon green and neon pink, for example  ) or something like that would make them harder to miss.
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I have no control over any of those things. The only mechanisms at our disposal are stickies (which are forum-specific), and announcements, which aren't threads.
Sorry, unless the programmers can come up with something better, you'll just have to check these things.
tooki
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Originally Posted by tooki
T...
Everyone is expected to check the forum where they intend to post for existing threads and announcements.
tooki
Are we expected to salute as well? Have you any idea of how that sounds? It sounds like a frigging bureaucracy - get form A, go to counter C, go to counter D, get form F, go back to counter C. I think Mastrap's comment about you no longer being in Switzerland is something you should think about. This place is not the military and it is not some hopelessly large corporation, but you try to run it that way.
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WTF does Switzerland have to do with anything?
Switzerland also has the least bureaucracy I've ever seen. The U.S.'s red tape is legendary.
Regardless, expecting people to look in the forum where they intend to post to see if anyone else has posted, or if any relevant messages are there, is not unreasonable.
tooki
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Originally Posted by theolein
Are we expected to salute as well? Have you any idea of how that sounds? It sounds like a frigging bureaucracy - get form A, go to counter C, go to counter D, get form F, go back to counter C. I think Mastrap's comment about you no longer being in Switzerland is something you should think about. This place is not the military and it is not some hopelessly large corporation, but you try to run it that way.
WTF ?
I can totally understand why tooki needed a sabbatical !
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