Sticky, and people will need to just develop the habit of checking the stickies whenever they visit the forum.

But imo if somebody creates a delisting thread meant to get the attention of people who don't look at the stickies, don't lock that one.

I vote for sticky as well. Many days I don't go past page 1, so I could easily miss a delisting if it got pushed down to page 2 or more

Nothing to be sorry about :).

Agreed on all points. Again, this is not a debate on how useful these threads are (because they ARE useful), it's a debate on who gets the *sticky* medal. If you start stickying every useful thread on the forums, you'll end up with 2 pages of stickies, and IMHO they're already too many.

I for one think "ROM based GOG games compatible with third party emulators thread" is highly useful, which is why I have it marked as a favourite, so it shows up in a list above the stickies. Anyone can pick their favourite threads, there's really no point to sticky everything. Unless it's an urgent announcement or highly important to new people on the forums.

... if only the forum supported such dark sorcery! :P

I'd say the main point of sticky threads is to be readily found by people who DON'T regularly use the forums.
Admittedly, this does make the delisting ones pointless, since people who don't regularly check won't see them anyway. But for the rest, I'm thinking along the lines of what should somebody who either recently joined or infrequently checks the forums see first. Forum rules and FAQ, the news (which quickly can no longer be seen otherwise), details of game updates, some indication that Linux is not forgotten, all of those would rank way up there.

Sticky please. I don't mind whether it's an individual game post, or a delistings thread. If it's a delistings thread, I'd prefer if it was staff-only/non-discussion (and people can make their own thread to discuss it).

Though honestly, I'd prefer news post announcements, rather than forum posts.
I don't usually come into the General Discussion forum, I mainly check the news, individual game forums, and the front page of the forum (that shows your subscribed threads). I have to actively remind myself to come into General Discussion for posts like these, and used to miss them until they started being stickied.

I don't like the idea of having it blink, as it can be rather distracting to have something blinking on the page.

There's a reason the BLINK HTML tag was deprecated, and that you don't see blinking text on the internet as often as you used to back in the day.

Don't like the idea of it being buried under the forum games after a few hours. Sticky and either BOLD the text, color it red (or some other noticeable color) or both. At least something to make it more visible to the select few people that cannot manage to see that it was posted in the first place to displace the endless bitching.

I vote for sticky, however maybe give it a distinct colour such as red to help it stand out more.

Like I said before, there's only a handful of stickies anyway. And ones you haven't looked at are shown in BOLD so they clearly stand out. Just look at the picture to see.

It's better to keep DeListing threads stickied at the top, so they don't get lost in amongst all the other threads.


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I'm not sure if red is a good idea, as it might make it hard to read.

(The blue is already a bit hard to read.)

Sticky.

Regular announcement threads fall off the first page quite easily.

Sticky makes them easier to find for me.

Can only confirm all other post, please make it sticky.

No, you should not Sticky it.

Because all that Stickying-it actually accomplishes is to make the the Delisting announcement become effectively invisible to most of GOG's forum readers, who naturally become acclimated always to subconsciously ignore all "Sticky" threads.

Therefore, by "Stickying" delisting announcements, doing that is just as bad as if GOG had made no delisting announcement at all.

By the same token, this thread should not be Stickyed either, since it's current status as a Sticky thread carries all those exact same problems.

You are going to receive answers from a sample that has become biased due to your question only appearing to those few GOG users who have consciously trained themselves always to look at Sticky threads, even though doing that runs contrary the natural automatic reaction to subconsciously ignore them...which is what the majority of GOG forum readers will naturally do.

That is to say, the majority of GOG users who would answer the OP's question with "Don't Sticky" will be unable to give that answer, because they are never going to see this thread, and they are never going to know GOG was asking for their opinion about that, because GOG made this thread become effectively invisible to them by Stickying it.

It's just a pure fluke that I happened to even see this thread, since there is a 99%+ chance I wouldn't have with it being a Sticky.

Since GOG started implementing the horrible policy to "Sticky" delisting announcements, I've never actually seen those announcements until after GOG de-Stickied them, after the game had already been removed off the store.

Whereas before GOG implemented the horrible policy to "Sticky" delisting announcements, I always saw most or all of the delisting announcements.

No doubt many/most other GOG users are in that same exact boat.

Actually, yes it is hard, and it's also a colossal waste of the customer's time and energy too.

For example, there are currently a ludicrously high number of nine Sticky threads on this board.

Expecting GOG customers to manually & painstakingly scan their eyes over 9-10 Sticky threads every time they come to the GOG forum is very unreasonable and that would also be very aggravating & tedious to do.

Scanning over all Sticky threads everytime one comes to the forum would be a reasonable idea if GOG only had a small, reasonable amount of Sticky threads, which it never does.

Reasonable would be no more than 3 Sticky threads ever on this board at the same time, at the very max, i.e. one Sticky for forum rules, one Sticky for delisting announcements, one Sticky for another possible important announcement by GOG.

But no way that idea to train yourself to look at all Sticky threads is reasonable if GOG persists in its tradition of Stickying a high number of useless & irrelevant threads that in no way need to be Stickied.