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Originally Posted by jersysman
I found the ones that I was interested in my SUBSCRIBING to the thread. That took care of finding the Genre threads. I rather see that instead of Stickies. In fact, I think it goes against what a stickie should really be.
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Two issues with this: 1. Not everyone likes to do things the same way, I don't like to subscribe to threads, lots of others are the same way. Lots of people do. In fact this whole thing started because ATDrake started doing things differently (lots of individual threads) than had been the norm of late. And 2. The threads are
monthly which means you have to go find them and resubscribe every month. The stickies are a lot more convenient for users (less so for the moderators, but being a moderator isn't always an easy job).
It looks to me like the mods are trying to find a solution that will make the most people happy, satisfying both camps in posting formats, without undue difficulty for either. Neither camp will be 100% satisfied, no matter what solution is used. Both camps will have to make some sacrifices.
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Originally Posted by issybird
And more importantly from an administrative point of view, stickies should be reserved for help for newbies before they go off the deep end and for news, information and warnings to the membership in general, as an alert to a policy change or other news of high and/or immediate importance.
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Well by that standard the long-running Kobo discount codes thread shouldn't be stickied either.
I'll also say having the genre threads stickied makes it easier for newbies to find stuff in the start. If the individual threads had managed to push the genre thread they were looking for down a page or two, they might not look far enough and decide there wasn't anything of interest to them here. This way they'll know for certain there is. (And yes, the missing threads should be up there too.)