Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-7981828-20130512212330/@comment-5014364-20130714192917

It isn't meant to alert people, but as a permanent warning when people enter the forum and start making a forum post. What possible use is a pervasive word balloon?

"Only visible to those using the index"...you mean...everyone who is about to start a thread in the forum?

If I wanted to give site-wide announcements, I woulde use the community sitenotice we already have.

I want specifically a means to sticky forum threads to the top of the page so we can keep important forum rules and guidelines in place, as well as an Administrator's Noticeboard.

"Recent Forum Activity" is in no way helpful because it only covers recent posts; people won't be able to see an "Administrator's Noticeboard" that way; NOR can we post a locked thread containing guidelines and rules, which by definition wouldn't have much "editing activity".

This isn't "superior", anymore than Visual mode is (NO ONE on Game of Thrones Wiki uses Visual editor and it actually made more confusion because now people don't have a firm grasp of where they're inserting things relative to other coded templates). But I digress.

"This new software encourages people to go to only the thread they want." --No. The entire point is that we need to lock down and PREVENT people from randomly joining into conversations they "want" to read, but to force them to *read the damned rules* before posting mindless fluff. We're trying to FORCE them to go to the Forum index so they read the rules.

I am now, telling you directly, that the inability to sticky threads is a major flaw. It is a major failure. No, "highlighting" threads cannot reproduce the same effects as stickying threads, and by and large falls utterly short of what we actually need.

I thank you for nothing.