kacir's sticky is wagging a tail of 165 posts (last time I looked earlier).
I may not be thinking straight due to needing some sleep soon, but there was more than one reason I was worried about a sticky at this point.
1. Tail size would be very long. I intend to pursue this for months. I don't have a problem with that tail, you might not have a problem with it, but new users might as they're the ones wading thru, particularly if they're not forum-savvy yet. I had that problem at first here, being new to forums, because I felt like I should read everything before I attempted posting instead of just skipping ahead and risking it.
2. The pace of change in the text of the OP sticky will be fast. I can see this slowing down and stabilizing sometime in the future but at this point I can't predict how long that will be. I don't have a problem with that, you might not have a problem with that, but new user might. When it stabilizes for a "new user" sticky, I might jump over and become an intermediate user and go through the same kind of "thinking out loud" rapid development learning process again towards a sticky at that level, if someone else hasn't done it by then already. I like theducks' lightbulb.
3. I hear starson's concern that a new user may have difficulty finding this regular ole thread, but I'm okay with that because its not ripe enough yet for new users to digest. IMO. Such as when I was brand new user, I would have wanted to miss this thread at that point because I was more concerned about learning how to put series into kindle-title and figuring out how to convert DRMd things. Unless its stable I don't see such a long-tailed sticky doing anything but confusing that user.
Edit1...4. There might be a lot of my asking mods to move or delete things. Someone contacted me this week mildly annoyed that I'd asked for a double-post mistake to be deleted. Edit3: Because it hadn't been the first time during a 2 or 3 day period. So I'm even more leary of that in this type of thread let alone a sticky tailed one.
Edit2…5. Whether Manichaen was originally right or wrong about sticky being editable by poster if it's locked - just doesn't feel like the right time yet, to me. I have a major revision progressing that'll probably get posted in a couple days, then that will need minor fixing, then people will respond, iteratively on for perhaps quite awhile.