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Re: What exactly is a "sticky" topic?
Reply #7 - 11/14/05 at 04:54:03
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Usually you'd make a thread sticky when it is about something very important so it has to be the top thread, so users immediately see it. You make it locked if it is just a statement which doesnt warrant discussion. Usually forum rules are stickied and locked for exactly this reason.
  
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Re: What exactly is a "sticky" topic?
Reply #6 - 11/13/05 at 22:48:54
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Great introspection LH.  Cheesy (Just kidding)

Yaltmax is not around to intervene anyway. Wink
  
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Re: What exactly is a "sticky" topic?
Reply #5 - 11/13/05 at 14:31:27
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I would think that it could become "locked" (I'm supposing that means no more posts allowed in that thread) if it were deemed (by a moderator) that the comments being made were unproductive, irrelevant, vituperative etc.

Ok, let's test out that theory:

Hey moderator!  This topic is stupid, stupid, stupid!  I'm being unproductive, can't you tell?  Perhaps even irrelevant!  Want me to be vituperative?  Grrrr!!!

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Re: What exactly is a "sticky" topic?
Reply #4 - 11/13/05 at 13:35:58
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I would think that it could become "locked" (I'm supposing that means no more posts allowed in that thread) if it were deemed (by a moderator) that the comments being made were unproductive, irrelevant, vituperative etc.
  
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Re: What exactly is a "sticky" topic?
Reply #3 - 11/13/05 at 13:01:34
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I think a "sticky" topic is one considered to be of lasting and general interest, such as having to do with board policy.

kylemeister -

If that was the case (and maybe it is), then why would it ever become "locked"?  Wouldn't that be self-defeating, since after all, its of lasting and general interest.  Why lock it then?

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Re: What exactly is a "sticky" topic?
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I think a "sticky" topic is one considered to be of lasting and general interest, such as having to do with board policy.
  
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Re: What exactly is a "sticky" topic?
Reply #1 - 11/13/05 at 12:26:55
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Could be a topic that "sticks" around forever and ever with repetitive postings that rehash the same old ground.  Until finally, someone gets sick of that foolishness and "locks" it.  Then we have the "locked sticky topic" icon.

Or, it could be one of your favorites:  a topic that somebody finds unpleasant or controversial.  As in "Sir Rodney committed an egregious faux pas and found himself in a bit of a sticky wicket, poor chap."

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What exactly is a "sticky" topic?
11/13/05 at 11:01:47
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I've noticed in the legend describing topics that a red flag shows a popular one, a yellow as not quite as popular, and then there's a "sticky topic" icon.  What does that mean?
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