Big stick?

[Rui]

Hi. I noticed some sites have the sticky thread names with a bigger size. Since some users appear to scroll past them without noticing, wouldn't it be a good idea to increase the size to 3 (I believe the default is 2)?

I would like to hear people's opinion as well. Feel free to post!

 

[Pyritie]

Or maybe make the font a brighter color. Or maybe both.

 

[Hawkwing]

I never miss them, but that's just me. It might work.

 

[TheDivineBoss]

Other colour.

 

[Kwah]

Both would be good. I don't really have a hard time seeing them though.

 

[Gilles]

People choose not to read stickies.

 

[Hawkwing]

Exactly. It's not that they don't see them, it's just that they think they already know what's going to be in them.

"Forum Guidelines: Now spamming, or being inappropriate."

If you make the font twice as big or even three times they're still going to disregard the entire thing.

 

[Rui]

But then I can clearly give them negative reputation because they had no reason not to see it.

 

[Steel_Stallion]

You evil bastard you..

 

[Rising_Dusk]

Or maybe you can just deal with the fact that people suck and won't read stickies first before posting. If you make the stickies noticeable enough such that they have to be read by the new users, then they're going to also be annoying enough to impede natural forum exploration in the older users. The obvious solution is to just tell people to read the rules and punish them when they don't. Mods need jobs, or something.

 

[Hawkwing]

And if the crime is serious enough then they will be. But there's always still someone who will break a rule.

 

[Kyrbi0]

...people suck...

Lol, pessimism nihilism misanthropism realism for an admin.

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On-Topic, I think that it's not a terrible idea to bold, CAPITALIZE, recolor, or even resize the Sticky List. Probably not all 4, though.

 

[Verhalthur]

I've actually browsed the stickies, but i think both changes would still make them more obvious to n00bz.

 

[Rui]

Bold topics are the ones with new posts, so that can't be it. I like the different color suggestion too.
Well, that's it. Let's hope Ralle sees this!

 

[NearbyHermit]

Coloring the name would be the most noticeable!

As well as a Bold tag wrapped around it,it would easily be noticed.


Sticky - the color should be a sort of green,to fit well with the Night-Elven theme and aswell be attractive!

 

[Zombie]

I beleive this is an extremely good idea. Make it bigger, and change color.

EDIT: The Rules should be made extremely visible, since most people tends to forget reading them.

 

[Kwah]

EDIT: The Rules should be made extremely visible, since most people tends to forget reading them.

No, its just that no one cares, and people are stupid. Mostly the people who break the rules, are:

a) Doing it intentionally
b) Join the site make under ten posts then dissapera forever

 

[~Void~]

What about always bold and colored something other than the default?

No, its just that no one cares, and people are stupid. Mostly the people who break the rules, are:

a) Doing it intentionally
b) Join the site make under ten posts then dissapera forever

That's mostly true. It's a totally different issue, which needs to be addressed. A lot of the users who break the rules are the moderators who protect and enforce them. There is a lot of power abuse here, both subtle and noticeable.

 

[NearbyHermit]

And also there are people who do not read the rules or Stickies

It should be somewhat attractive.

 

[Zombie]

Wouldn't it be good if the mods/admins could choose the color and font size for each thread they make sticky?

 

[NearbyHermit]

It would be better,but all those stickies,it will be rainbow subforum.

Sticky
Sticky
Sticky


Excuse me for this!

 

[Zombie]

I think the mods for each section would choose kinda the same color, but meh, now that you say it it's not a too good idea.

 

[NearbyHermit]

Well I dind't meant to ,but it will surely come to this.

Best way to make it obvious and noticeable is to put a symbol on it or something,different from the other threads.

 

[Hawkwing]

It's not because it's not noticeable, it's because nobody cares. I never read the rules, not once unless I want to clarify something. But the longer I was at the Hive the more I got the hang of it. Nobody cares about stickies, and there's nothing to do that will make them care unless they are punished accordingly.

 

[Gilles]

Is it possible to give Moderators the ability to use code in the thread names?

 

[Rising_Dusk]

If it were, it'd be a terrible idea. I can see people using those silly youtube tags in thread titles already.

 

[Kwah]

Or . . . links to other locations in thread titles.

 

[Zombie]

I trust our moderators, I'm sure they'll not abuse stickies if they haven't abused them so far.

 

[Gilles]

If it were, it'd be a terrible idea. I can see people using those silly youtube tags in thread titles already.

Well I'd hope our moderators would be mature enough to use them properly. You can always take away powers.

 

[Pyritie]

If it were, it'd be a terrible idea. I can see people using those silly youtube tags in thread titles already.

Or just allow several tags, like in profiles where only basic formatting and images are allowed.

 

[TheDivineBoss]

A big animated arrow pointed to the Sticky.

But offcourse, nothing like thát.

 

[NearbyHermit]

That small thing?


Or something animated.Why don't we call out Ralle to see if he's sudgesting something?

 

[TheDivineBoss]

Got a random arrow from the internet, recoloured, gif'ed and uploaded it:

 

[Zombie]

I have 2 suggestions. It might be retarded.

Why not make the unread stickies for users (or the rules only of each section) sticked to the user's User profile or User CP, adding a new section to the user profile or on top of the screen, OR why not make a window that pops up when you enter, let's say the request forum saying: Welcome xyz to the requests forum. You have N unread stickies. Read them for your own safety or something like that...

 

[NearbyHermit]

I have 2 suggestions. It might be retarded.

Why not make the unread stickies for users (or the rules only of each section) sticked to the user's User profile or User CP, adding a new section to the user profile or on top of the screen, OR why not make a window that pops up when you enter, let's say the request forum saying: Welcome xyz to the requests forum. You have N unread stickies. Read them for your own safety or something like that...

That sounds good,since I spend most of my time in the user CP!

 

[Hakeem]

If I had to choose between requiring new users to take a test ensuring that they know the rules before they post or a README.TXT file in the root directory, I'd choose the latter.

 

[brad.dude03]

Hakeem that would be cool, but we'd kill off most of our userbase

 

[~Void~]

Make it so the user cannot read any other topics until they have at least clicked on the sticky threads

 

[AKI_SER]

Increase the font size and change the color,I believe those two combined would be the best solution

 

[Steel_Stallion]

Rename the thread to "free narutu spel pax"

Or "Free porn"

 

[NearbyHermit]

Rename the thread to "free narutu spel pax"

Or "Free porn"

Lay of the jokes

It's important for the members to see the rules that are enforced!