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Originally Posted by Thasaidon
I think it would be useful to have a "tips and tricks for Calibre " folder in the stickies.
I also think that ONLy tricks and tips should be permitted in it and perhaps an index of the items.
One of the problems I have with the other "tips and tricks: forums is that specific tips are buried in discussion about a tip which obscures the actual tip.
I would suggest an ordinary thread be started for each tip and after any discussion is ended the mods be asked to move the finalised tip to the sticky.
What do other people think?
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You would lose a lot of value if the discussion that led to a 'finalised tip" was discarded, especially if people post variants and alternatives within the discussion.
On the other hand if topics are merged on a linear forum platform like VBulletin you lose the flow of a 'discussion' if other 'discussions' overlap in time. As occurs in some of the existing open sticky threads.
If MR moved to a multi-threaded platform, as was mooted at one time**, then you could do what you want; e.g. by collapsing all threads within a topic you have an index, another advantage is that newcomers can seek clarification by adding a post to an existing thread.
** IIRC Xenforo was mentioned.
An alternative is a sticky list of links to threads, such as these ==>>
Index of Useful Links for Book Creators and
Useful Related Tools Threads
BR