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Subject: How about an emergency sticky option?
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What I am thinking is this: whenever a forum emergency arises like the stats problem now, or the spam attack of January 14 due to matchmaking not working, the mods quickly create a new temporary sticky explaining everything. However, these are drowned out by all the other stickies surrounding it.

So how about an option for an EMERGENCY sticky? Once this option is used, a sticky is created whose title is twice the size of a normal thread's, and is permanently the top, even above all the other stickies. The size of this is simply to grab attention from those people intending to start their own (and very old, countlessly repeated and spammed) topic.

Thoughts?

  • 02.26.2006 9:51 PM PDT
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I still get the feeling it would be ignored. But thanks for trying.

  • 02.26.2006 9:57 PM PDT
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Posted by: Spartan 37
I still get the feeling it would be ignored. But thanks for trying.

  • 02.26.2006 10:00 PM PDT

I'm not that active, but never dead.

Like an announcement in php?

  • 02.27.2006 12:04 AM PDT
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php?

  • 02.27.2006 12:15 AM PDT
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php?

maybe it could be in red and large or something. no one can miss something the size of 3 thread titles that is flashing red :)

  • 02.27.2006 3:42 AM PDT
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Only the paranoid will survive!

I like it. The details could be changed, but the gist is it's impossible to miss, right?

  • 02.27.2006 3:45 AM PDT

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Like the idea in general, but hate the idea of large writing/ caps. Perhaps there is a better way of conveying its importance.

  • 02.27.2006 3:55 AM PDT
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well, i guess it is a choice between large caps at the top of the page, or 5 of the same topic on the front page. by far the size increase seems like the easiest dea to implement(i might be wrong).

Posted by: Pimp at Sea
I like it. The details could be changed, but the gist is it's impossible to miss, right?


yup. the idea is that even a brain retarded blind monkey could not miss it. how we make it so can be changed. i mean, one locked sticky buried by 7 others just somehow does not grab enough attention... even i didnt notice it till i read someone point it out.

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  • 02.27.2006 4:43 AM PDT

"I pledge to punch all switches, to never shoot where I could use grenades, to admit the existence of no level except Total Carnage, to never use caps lock as my "run" key, and to never, ever, leave a single BoB alive."

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That or they could make a new icon for the EMERGENCY sticky and maybe a color or something to identify it from the rest!

  • 02.27.2006 5:01 AM PDT
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hmmm... all good ideas. now the main problem is whether it can even be put in without too much time wasted.

  • 02.27.2006 5:21 AM PDT
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Well a good way to get attention the sticky is by giving it a title such as "OMGODZ! T3H HALO 3 IN HEREZZZZ!!!!!!one!!"

If it's appropiate to do such a thing is a different subject though.

  • 02.27.2006 7:35 AM PDT
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Usually they will post such a thing in the News section right below the Top Stories.

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  • 02.27.2006 1:10 PM PDT

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Chairleg Productions presents: 'Console Wars' and 'Games as Art?' (also on Halo Waypoint).

Community news you mean? Well actually they haven't for some time now. At least with something like an "emergency sticky" everyone can see it. Or even better, if they could link it so it would post as news if it was made. That would be awesome if it's even possible =\

  • 02.27.2006 1:27 PM PDT

i don't think it really matters because if there's something that is supposed to be seen by everyone on bnet, its posted on the front page. And it'll be overlooked if its just in the forums unless something crazy happens and people pay attention. But like that'll ever happen.

  • 02.27.2006 1:31 PM PDT

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Well it would certainly lower the ammount of spam topics about the same thing, it proboly wouldnt stop it, but it might help.

Has much has i love seeing the Zanzibar filled with "Problems with My stats." Threads, I think your idea would work, but i dont think it would make the current to do list.

  • 02.27.2006 1:59 PM PDT
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this would only be used in emergency situations. like the stats problem now. or anyone here remember jan 14?

  • 02.27.2006 6:04 PM PDT
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which is where the emergency sticky comes in. whatever the current problem, the sticky will contain information, as well as being impossible to miss.

  • 02.27.2006 6:14 PM PDT

"You know what happens when you leave someone hanging for too long? They fall."

*Click* Psshhhhhhhh

Rather than being giant, I think that instead of an orange exclamation, it could possibly be blue. The thing would automatically unpin itself after the week. Still it would take some work. I really doubt that this will go into effect.

PS: To get bigger text, go to "Veiw", then "Text Size", and choose "Largest".

  • 02.27.2006 6:31 PM PDT

Posted by: jarell88
permanently the top

I would make the thread be stuck at the bottom of the sticky list, because, many people seem to skip the pinned threads that are near the top of the page and jump right down to the normal threads, with the lower-most stickies still in view.

  • 02.27.2006 7:51 PM PDT
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ah! but you see, no one can miss a title 3 times the normal size with an attention grabbing colour!

  • 02.27.2006 8:39 PM PDT

Posted by: WolfmanMaverick
You people have just sent my sides into orbit. A bunch of MLG try hards sucking the dick of some supposed pro half the thread hasn't even heard of. Classic.

Posted by: jarell88
ah! but you see, no one can miss a title 3 times the normal size with an attention grabbing colour!


I think you underestimate the idiots in the forums.

  • 02.27.2006 8:44 PM PDT
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then we make a new rule that whosoever posts a topic covered by the sticky will get blacklisted :)

  • 02.27.2006 8:50 PM PDT