Community MVP

You know it's a Friday before a holiday (at least for the US) weekend when things turn toward Monty Python quotes. ;)

As the MVPs have already stated, program information is in the topmost sticky (the one that people ignore since it's been there since the dawn of time). We tend to look for people who are active and predominantly positive contributors to the community as a whole. We're always keeping our eyes out for more people as well.

Also, being able to quote Monty Python, Discworld, or Douglas Adams doesn't hurt right?

Constructive feedback is always welcome be it negative or positive in nature. Not all feedback is constructive. Of course, this is a known, right?

As for necroing, we don't have a hard line that says that a thread is necroed as of "x" time. That said though, it's about the context of the thread. Generally, if it's an older thread, it's important to note what the content is and whether it's out of date. Otherwise, people who aren't paying attention to the origination date could become confused. In that case, it's better to create a new one (unless there is a newer thread already.) If it's a fun thread you're resurrecting and it was long to begin with, it's better to create a new one. We can stretch threads but tend to try not to only since at some point, they can break. We try to control that when we can. ;)

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I seem to switch between constructive feedback and unconstructive sarcasm.

With so many posts being trolls instead of actual requests for help, I can't tell where to be constructive.

It's generally better to err on the side of "not a troll" just in case and then should the opposite be true (they are a troll), just walk away knowing that the information could be helping someone anyway.

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Here's some constructive feedback then: When you don't stream-line your stickies, and they evolve into a big mess of information, they lose their effectiveness. THe information is pinned, but now it's buried in plain sight.

Unfortunately, as much as we work to do this, it's very easy for people to miss new information and many people generally have taught themselves to ignore the stickies (which is hazardous to your gaming forum browsing health fyi.) We try to limit how many stickies exist at one time and try to update the existing ones when we can (and notate the updates.) But, that said, we can't force anyone to notice and read them, but we can certainly remind people of their existence.

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It would be awesome if new stickies were at the top of the list, and/or a different color.

Usually it's easy to miss the stickies because they've all been there forever, and new ones are usually the same color, and in the middle of all the other stickies.

Make ones under a week old red or something so everyone knows to check if those are new.

Interesting feedback. You'll notice we tend to drop the new stickies down at the bottom of all of them so that it's the bottom most one then we slide them up as they become older. We'll keep trying to figure out ways to highlight them for people though.

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How about Princess Bride quotes?

"Stop it! I mean it!"

"Anybody want a peanut?"

Those have some value, though you need more of them.