Call For New stickies!

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I do have one warning though: While it may be a great boon to everyone here, it won't end the endless questions. You will still get the same questions over and over again.

True enough, every forum faces that. However, is that an excuse to not at least look at updating or keeping a more relevant and up-to-date go-to area for those of us who do read stickies first? I think we need to show a bit more faith in humanity Steve Not having a go at you of course.

The only difference there is that instead of answering them you will end up posting links to the stickied answers, and will spend just as much time looking them up as you did answering the questions.

From my point of view i think that would be wrong, if there were stickies that were relevant and updated and apt for what's going on now, rather than posts that were made months ago in a sticky, then it wouldn't take much time at all to find the appropriate info quickly and without much fuss. I find myself often trawling through pages upon pages of useless (to me, please don't anyone take offense to that) posts in a thread which the title tells me is what i'm after but the content is rather not relevant. Then, on page 89 there is 1 post which actually answers my query. Hence updating or having more relevant info at one's disposal would be nice.
I know this is a big job.

Or will just say "Read the stickies", and get accused of being a jerk.

Well, so be it, i guess either we update stickies or we go on the notion that everytime we link someone to somewhere we get paranoid and think that person is going to berate us.
I have faith, and i've been on these forums for a while now and the sense that i get is quiete the opposite, i see members posting(98% of the time) with maturity and respectful questions and answers.

Why don't we members vote or something? Firstly a vote to see what needs updating, and voting on if this is needed? Put it to the members, ask them what they would like to see, obviously Neal is the Boss and what he says goes, but i don't see there being any problem from his end.
Just a thought.
I'm sure you will read my replies with neutrality Steve, not as a personal attack.

To the community: I'd be more than happy to outline in brief what sort of stickies, in my view and experience in reading other's newly-created threads or myself seeking answers to topics might be useful or pertinant to now.