Phirate - Forum Stickies

2/17/08 16:20

Essentially, sticky topics in the context you're talking about are a poor attempt at rescuing failure at other levels. It should not be necessary to come to the forum to ask about these things, we should have done a sufficiently good job at communicating on other pages on the site to prevent people from needing to come here and ask.

Many forums use sticky topics as a poor excuse for a knowledge base, which in turn is a poor excuse for communicating correctly in the right place, which is a poor excuse for behaving in an intuitive/correct fashion in the first place. I'd rather focus my time and effort at the top of that chain.

We'll never get everybody, there are people who claim to have read the FAQ and the help stuff etc who are asking a question answered on page one, but I have no faith those people would read sticky topics either :)