Used to be about 'Stickies', now seems to be about OCD... :D

[HeyWayne]

Don't think so Wayne cos then she wouldn't be lost.

You haven't seen it back here...

[binley100]

Ssssh Pb's got to be quiet her dad's come visiting...

[Nicos]

I am being to think I'm really missing out not having a chuck or three

You are indeed me luv!!!!....one day..one day!

[Two_Sheds]

I always hit the 'New Posts' tab

me too.

quite a lot of mouse threads at the moment

[SarzWix]

I'm not overly fond of all the 'Stickies' either - on my netbook they completely fill the screen. But they do serve a purpose I suppose. (Although, in 'the olden days', peeps did just go and find the threads they wanted to post on... )

[Snadger]

I'm not overly fond of all the 'Stickies' either - on my netbook they completely fill the screen. But they do serve a purpose I suppose. (Although, in 'the olden days', peeps did just go and find the threads they wanted to post on... )

I never look at the stickies, but have noticed they seem to be taking over the forum! Progress I spose?

PS Could we not have a section entitled 'Stickies' with all the stickies in it?

[FionaH]

I never look at the stickies, but have noticed they seem to be taking over the forum! Progress I spose?

A necessary evil really

[Sanjo]

I must be "thick" or maybe it's just the very heavy cold I currently have, but please, what's a "stickie". I have been through this thread twice and I can't work out what the problem is. Is it me? In simple language please because I'm poorly and my head is muzzy!!!!!

[zazen999]

Grow Your Own - Growing, How To Grow Tomatoes Growing Fruit & Veg - Recipe Advice, Organic food Gardening, Chickens, Seeds for Sale


The 'sticky' will appear at the top of the listing, rather than drop off the front page. We use it for 'current' stuff...but have been known to leave things there probably a bit longer than needed.

No doubt now there are a couple more Mods, we will be able to clean it up more often.

*scribbles post it note to self

[Eco-Chic]

Sanjo, when you go into Vegging Out the first ten threads start:

Sticky: blah blah yada yada

Other sites call 'stickies' pinned threads

[SarzWix]

I've just 'unstuck' a couple of them

[COMPOST CORNER]

I like the stickies, they tend to be the threads I use most anyway. And if they aren't it's no big deal to scroll past them

[Sanjo]

Thank you peeps. I told you I was thick (sick!!) didn't notice they were called stickies. I just ignore what I'm not interested in.
I shall now take my Night Nurse and zonk out!!!!

[teakdesk]

It is popular stuff that is stuck, and that sticky hosts all the threads on that topic...

...This way, we merge them all and keep them neatly at the top.

Honest, it's easier this way

On my PC the threads that are currently "popular" (i.e. have recent replies) are sorted to be the first shown at the top so there is no need for them to be "stickied".


Half of the "stickies" here seem to be those that someone thinks will not be popular and tries to influence them by keeping them artificially at the top (boo!! boo!! boo!!).

The other half are threads that will be relevant throughout the season (as Zazen says) and form a useful part of the forum (hurrah!! hurrah!! hurrah!!)... although it is very annoying when someone adds a post to these, often long, stickied threads without reading it first to find that the answer has already been given a few pages before.



If I can give another observation... this forum is an electronic form of verbal chatting which is a social activity. In "real" life we talk to friends and ask them for their opinion, rather than going to the library on our own to read a book by someone who has already written about their experiences. We would not be pleased if our friends didn't indulge in chatting with us but told us to read a book...

When a post gets "merged" with another post it loses the "chattyness" of this forum and is the equivalent of telling someone to read a book...

The "sympathy from friends" element required by someone starting a post is lost when a post is merged.





It's not easy being a mod!!




But on the other hand it is extremely annoying to have my PC screen filled with a first post from hundreds of grapes looking for sympathy because they have just found potential blight on their tomatoes... or their seedlings have a bit of white near the soil...


I think, from last year's experience, that the mods here do a difficult job very well

Thanks in anticipation from me!!

[piskieinboots]

Please note: post contains no patronising

I'm not over keen on saying 'excellent reply' as I always fear it comes across as patronising - so excellent post teakdesk - it gives superb analogies that I hadn't considered.