Sticky: new releases July + August 2009
Sticky: new releases September + October 2009
Sticky: Hentai Anime List - By Category
Sticky: DO NOT UPLOAD: list - updated
Sticky: AGTH TUTORIAL
There are five stickies in Hentai Discussion right now. A screen resolution of 1440 x 900 shows only eight threads when the page is fully scrolled to the top. This means that over half of the visible threads are stickies. Worse, it means that less than one-fifth of the monitor is displaying any new information for return visitors. Larger resolutions may not suffer the problem as badly, but the point still stands: five stickies is a bit excessive.
The point of a sticky is:
(1) you want every member to read it because
(2) it's very important, it addresses an FAQ, or both
But when you flood a forum with stickies, ironically you make it that much more likely that people will NOT read them. People are selfish by nature. They don't want to be lectured. (LOL @ irony of what I'm doing here. Thank you for listening ;____; ) They want to get to the good stuff as quickly as possible. If you tell them, "I'll give you treasure but first you need to read this one thread," they're more likely to listen than if you were to tell them, "I'll give you treasure but first you need to read these six threads."
Advice: de-sticky some of these threads, please.
Why: with fewer stickies, people are more likely to pay attention to the stickies. With too many stickies, it becomes a "sticky block" of text which people's eyes tend to glaze over as they look for the forum's first non-sticky thread.
More Advice: [hide]
1. you don't need four months' worth of upcoming releases stickied. A single two-month sticky should be good enough. I could understand temporarily having both stickied once we reached Week 7 or Week 8 of a two-week period, but any sooner is just clutter. If people want to talk, they'll post in that thread. The odds of somebody posting a dupe thread for products which don't even come out for over two months are low.
2. Does anyone seriously read the Hentai Anime List thread anymore? It isn't updated and it isn't complete even by 2007 standards. I'm not saying it was a bad thread. It was a great thread. But "was" is the key word here. I don't think it needs to be a sticky anymore.
3. Does the "Do Not Upload" list really need to be a global thread? I can understand it needing to be posted in the Rules forum and in the Torrent and Direct Download forums. But I don't see why it would need to be posted, let alone stickied, in the Hentai Discussion forum.
4. Wouldn't the AGTH tutorial sticky now be better suited for the Tec Support forum? Why is it a sticky in the first place? I confess to having asked about it not but a few months ago, but I don't think I'm the rule. I think I'm the exception: I almost never see people asking questions about ripping the game text from eroge, and I think that if anyone wanted help with this he would go to Tech Support first and Hentai Discussion second.[/hide]
And just like that, Hentai Discussion goes from having five stickies to having only one.
Thoughts? Comments? Criticisms? Alternate plans?
Sticky: new releases September + October 2009
Sticky: Hentai Anime List - By Category
Sticky: DO NOT UPLOAD: list - updated
Sticky: AGTH TUTORIAL
There are five stickies in Hentai Discussion right now. A screen resolution of 1440 x 900 shows only eight threads when the page is fully scrolled to the top. This means that over half of the visible threads are stickies. Worse, it means that less than one-fifth of the monitor is displaying any new information for return visitors. Larger resolutions may not suffer the problem as badly, but the point still stands: five stickies is a bit excessive.
The point of a sticky is:
(1) you want every member to read it because
(2) it's very important, it addresses an FAQ, or both
But when you flood a forum with stickies, ironically you make it that much more likely that people will NOT read them. People are selfish by nature. They don't want to be lectured. (LOL @ irony of what I'm doing here. Thank you for listening ;____; ) They want to get to the good stuff as quickly as possible. If you tell them, "I'll give you treasure but first you need to read this one thread," they're more likely to listen than if you were to tell them, "I'll give you treasure but first you need to read these six threads."
Advice: de-sticky some of these threads, please.
Why: with fewer stickies, people are more likely to pay attention to the stickies. With too many stickies, it becomes a "sticky block" of text which people's eyes tend to glaze over as they look for the forum's first non-sticky thread.
More Advice: [hide]
1. you don't need four months' worth of upcoming releases stickied. A single two-month sticky should be good enough. I could understand temporarily having both stickied once we reached Week 7 or Week 8 of a two-week period, but any sooner is just clutter. If people want to talk, they'll post in that thread. The odds of somebody posting a dupe thread for products which don't even come out for over two months are low.
2. Does anyone seriously read the Hentai Anime List thread anymore? It isn't updated and it isn't complete even by 2007 standards. I'm not saying it was a bad thread. It was a great thread. But "was" is the key word here. I don't think it needs to be a sticky anymore.
3. Does the "Do Not Upload" list really need to be a global thread? I can understand it needing to be posted in the Rules forum and in the Torrent and Direct Download forums. But I don't see why it would need to be posted, let alone stickied, in the Hentai Discussion forum.
4. Wouldn't the AGTH tutorial sticky now be better suited for the Tec Support forum? Why is it a sticky in the first place? I confess to having asked about it not but a few months ago, but I don't think I'm the rule. I think I'm the exception: I almost never see people asking questions about ripping the game text from eroge, and I think that if anyone wanted help with this he would go to Tech Support first and Hentai Discussion second.[/hide]
And just like that, Hentai Discussion goes from having five stickies to having only one.
Thoughts? Comments? Criticisms? Alternate plans?
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