Originally Posted by
kipper
I don't like the idea that it floats and can be pushed several pages down, because I think it might make it more difficult to find for users.
Most forums have links to popular permanent threads posted in one of the stickies. Therefore I favor floating the proposed threads.
The situation with sticky threads reminds me of the 1970s and 198s phone books. Since virtually every house had a phone book, advocates of every stripe insisted that various bits of vital information be included in the phone book. And where did they put it? At the front of the book, of course.
After several years of this, the "front of the book" grew to over 50 pages. You couldn't find anything in there without flipping dozens of pages. An initially reasonable idea turned out to be practically worthless in the end.