First off, thanks to the person who PMed me that this thread was here. I hadn't caught up to seeing it yet.
MuncieDavid, thanks for your feedback. I agree completely with the judicious stickying of threads, and apologize for being imperfect at it. A quick rundown on the ones you chose as examples:
the announcement by Phillip on the fate of the hidden feature: topic of significance to many (I know you agree with this one).
Clarissa's guide to getting around the site: I had unstickyed it and was asked to resticky it, so did. It gets a lot of looks, so I think it's continuing to be used. (I know you agreed with this one too.)
"the polls are at the polling place": I agree I left that up an unnecessary length of time (I fell asleep unexpectedly last night after excessive sleep deprivation, from not being able to quit you all). My reason for posting it to begin with is important, I think. I want to be sensitive to the fact that people see this Chez Tremblay sub-forum here at BetterMost as our homebase. So most people are still starting their threads here. But the moderators are all in support of Phillip's request that we begin to put topics where they go (polls in The Polling Place forum, movie biz news in the Movie Resources forum, etc.) So I want our still healing community to know that threads aren't being moved willy nilly, but in a caring, conscious manner.
the invitation to the Brokeback ABCs: I was asked to sticky this, and was happy to. I agree I left it up a mite long (that being asleep thing getting in the way again.) I am theoretically happy to sticky anything anyone thinks has value for the group. Just ask.
you're catching up on your PMs: I got here after the long sleep and found a surprising number of PMs, mostly moderator-related. Feeling a responsiblity to reply in a timely fashion to people on moderator-related matters, I put up that quicky sticky. I don't think it was up more than an hour.
Or maybe I think that the newly discovered and definitely awesomely cool sticky thread feature is being abused by those who have access to it.: This is the one place I think you are being unnecessarily rude in an open forum. Please have the courage to address me directly. But to answer you - yeah! It is fun having the ability to sticky stuff. And as I said, i want to use that power for good not ill, and I want to use it for anybody, just let know - as long as you think it would benefit a significant number of forum members.
Lastly, it's fine with me if you address your issues in the group setting (if you think it benefits the group(?)), but PM me to let me know they are there. Someone else did that work for you.
Clarissa