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What the Hell and Who the Hell is Sticky???

10-06-2005 8:53pm

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MrCookieMonster

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#2 10-06-2005 8:55pm

Creamy Goodness

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stickies are placed at the top of forums,

they commonly deal with Frequently asked questions, and the guidelines to posting in a particular forum

here's an example
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=106995

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#3 10-06-2005 8:55pm

qz

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A sticky is a permanent thread in a forum, often a charter or important post stating rules or announcements. It will always appear at the top of a forum, new posts won't knock it down the thread list. Only moderators and administrators can make them, but if you start an important thread and ask a mod or admin they may make it a sticky.

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#4 10-06-2005 8:55pm

aidan_walsh

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A sticky thread is one that is always at the top of the listing in a bid to make it more visible. In honesty, people tend to ignore them more than anything, in spite of the fact that they are there for a perfectly good reason.

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#5 10-06-2005 8:56pm

zenith

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Sticky is a moderator's power that allows them to keep a topic at the top of the list when you view a forum. It's a verb also: to sticky, means to set a topic to remain at the top of the forum.

That was an easy one: they're all easy if you know, sez you.

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