sorry but I do!
The whole of idea of one thread deemed important enough to be at the top of the page is kind of elitist.
Sure it makes it easier to find but really, how hard is it to look for something?
Sorry if this offends those that have made stickies, no offence taken, I just wonder why it's so necessary?
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What do you mean? Have I missed something?
Wilkie the threads at the top of tri have 'stickies!' as in someone has asked RW to make them stay at the top, hence the certificate looking symbol that makes them special.
They will remain there until requested that they loose their stickiness and then they will fall down the list unless someone posts on them.
Oh, I see.
So why don't people just put a bookmark on the threads that they are following? Swat I do!
If the threads important enough it will stay at the top on its own. If its not important and so deemed to need to be sticky its just getting in the way.
Natural selection.
Runners World please remove the stickies.
If we had a spitroast thread, that'd be quite sticky
many fora use stickies - they have their uses
What the dickens just happened there? wrong thread.
when i see it at the top I keep thinking that there is something new on there only to see no-one has posted for days............
fair point.
I just find them annoying! But yeah, each to their own I guess!
Don't completely agree with that FB. When I first joined another forum that allows stickies, there was 25 of the suckers. Some of the threads hadn't been posted on for months. Now there's four.
If people request something to be stickied i.e the Manchester social, someone should request the thread to be unstickied after the event. We know RW don't have much time to maintain the forums now so expecting they will unsticky threads at the appropriate time isn't going to work.
Just another thing though... on this tri section we have one sticky for a social and another a for training thread.
But there are LOADS of threads about training and loads about socials!!!
Am I the only one that sees this??Arghhh ignore me, I'm just having a moan about it! It's not really a problem just annoying!
oh sorry did I offend you IR?
Don't quite see what my training has got to do with anything but if you wanna make it personal, go ahead....
Yep that was me, I thought it would be a good idea to have a 'noticeboard thread' so people could say 'I am going to do blah blah blah on so and so date, anyone interested. Then they could go off and start a thread about it which they could then bookmark. A kind of 'daily notice of anything going on' thread. Of course like all threads it got hijacked but it still is serving a purpose in that people can look to see what (if) is happening local to them.
Carl that is crap, there is always a constant flow of people moaning about not being able to find threads and then some good soul boinging them. Threads get lost very quickly and lots of people do not have the time like you to trawl through forums looking for things.
Can't see the point in having the homage thread as a sticky though!!! Those who are going will be up to date with each other anyway. I can see how that would colour the outsiders point of view when people come on here and say about cliqueyness.
I asked for the sticky on the Manchester social thread, I have paid my own money to hire the room and I want it to be on the front page to prompt those that added thier names 3 months ago and have forgotten. Those people may also not read past the front page of Tri and may not think to check.
Its simple to check the date of last post and see if its current.
Its easy to ignore a sticky thread if it does not interest you.
Once the social has been and gone I shall request that it is unstuck.
The comment I believe the Admiral was making was not a personal one just inferring that perhaps you had a little time on your hands to come up with this one
Chances are the thead they will be looking for wont be one of the stickies anyway.
Ive used other forums where they have lots of stickies, its 8loody annoying. Yes I can agree there is a time and justification for some (RW v USA certainly isnt one).
Yes RW decide on the stickies as reaction to people asking for them, I just question the point. If its important enough it will stay on top because people are interested. If a thread has been sticky for a weeks and has few posts its onbvious it doesnt deserve the sticky status. I still dont see the point, natural selection works fine.