Sticky posts for topical threads

Mods – is it possible to make “topical” threads sticky? Two threads appeared in very close order about this year’s Strathpuffer. One’s now been closed but if the other was made sticky then there won’t be multiple threads with folk wondering which one they’ve been replying to.

Just an idea, might or might not be possible (or even work)

On mobile you can only see the top two threads anyway. Make any of them sticky and you’ll only exacerbate the poor screen layout.

OTOH you could roll every EU/Corbyn/May thread together as they generally end up with the same content.

I get six in portrait mode and none in landscape mode on my iPhone 🙁 Only needs to be one, maybe two, at any given time: Strathpuffer; Ft William World Cup; etc.

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We do sometimes, but the official stance is that it’s reserved for exceptional circumstances. The reason for this is fairly simple; if we stickied every available topic du jour, it’d take up half the forum.

For instance, there’s an argument for stickying celebrity RIP threads (because whenever someone famous dies there’s a flurry of activity as everyone races to be the first to create a thread without reading the forum first, and then we spend half the day closing duplicate threads). But if we’d done that in 2016 it’d have run off the first page.

If you’re posting a new thread, it should be blatantly obvious whether or not there’s a chance someone else is likely to do so as well (deaths, imminent cycling events = likely, how do I fix my washing machine = less likely) and it should only take a moment to read the forum index to see if it’s been done (though granted people’s choice of thread titles doesn’t always help).

If duplicates happen please report them and we’ll sack them off (and it’d be really really helpful if you included the URL to the other thread too, please).