Well, I didn't think this would be so contraversial!
I seemed to have stepped on Danurve's toes as he seemed to imagine that this is some anti-CM rant or that a tutorial forum would be in some kind of opposition to the CM. Lighten up, pal! The CM is wonderful.
I think a sticky would be some help, but not the same thing at all. For one thing, you have to convince the appropriate mod to link to it, but i dare say that would be some improvement.
I think such a forum would also be popular, not unpopular, and would be constructive not argumentative. As internet forums go, this one is characterised by an uncommonly helpful and cooperative nature.
Also, so what if it isn't a super popular forum? As you say, you have lots of others, you can always close it down and transfer the existing threads to this and the sh4 forum.
In this I am inspired principally by the example of my previous gaming obsession, the TW series. The websites devoted to that do in fact have a thriving and exceedingly useful tutorials section for both gameplay and modding and as this game is at least as complex (and i think much more so in fact) such a forum would be just as useful here, if not more so.
But clearly there is some inertia against the whole idea. Does it cost a lot of time or money to open a new forum? If so, then I retract the whole petition!