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Make stickies stick out more?

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  • 25-01-2009 3:11pm
    #1
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Just a small one. Was wondering if we could do a teensy bit more to differentiate the stickied threads from the non-stickied ones?
    Maybe a different icon for the envelope and varying the font?
    I reckon it might make people more likely to read the stickies and differentiates them from the threads a little more so you can automatically scan past them to the first thread..


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    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    Was thinking this myself the other day.. my suggestion would be for the topic title to be in bold.


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    javaboy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    Sully wrote: »
    Was thinking this myself the other day.. my suggestion would be for the topic title to be in bold.

    That would make me think I hadn't read a new post in it. I'd be constantly clicking on it. :D


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    eVeNtInE
    Registered Users Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭eVeNtInE


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    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    javaboy wrote: »
    That would make me think I hadn't read a new post in it. I'd be constantly clicking on it. :D
    all the better, people might read the fecking things then.


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    Random
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,080 ✭✭✭✭Random


    You don't wanna make them stand out too much or people will just slip them like they do the sitewide annoucements. You want people to have to ponder over them slightly before looking at the rest of the threads.


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    5starpool
    Subscribers Posts: 32,855 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    I'm not a big fan of this idea.


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    Red Sleeping Beauty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,443 ✭✭✭Red Sleeping Beauty


    Something inobtrusive would be good I think.
    I think there's a fair few mods that would say that people don't see or don't bother with either announcements or stickies.


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    Terry
    Registered Users Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Emboldened of a different colour font. Blue or something.
    Then again, that could screw things up for different skins.
    Probably just emboldened.


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    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    <blink></blink>

    But seriously, you want them to stand out in a way that people will recognise without confusing them with something else (bold being generally understood to mean "new post"). Something more like a non-obtrusive but high contrast (contradiction much?) background colour change might work best IMO. Something like a pale red against the otherwise white/grey would would well on the Classic (I think) skin for example.

    Or, as I have suggested before, make the tags available for stickies and other important threads like they are here in Development and Bargain Alerts.


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    #11
    Terry
    Registered Users Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    The tag thing is a good idea, but should only be available to mods on their respective forums.
    No idea if that's viable though.


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    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Oh, of course mod only.


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    #13
    Red Sleeping Beauty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,443 ✭✭✭Red Sleeping Beauty


    This has come up a few times in the last week

    Feedback thread:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055499944

    Comma Box thread:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055497104


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    #14
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Even just have something like COLOR="Red"]STICKY[/COLOR freebie list!!


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    Red Sleeping Beauty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,443 ✭✭✭Red Sleeping Beauty


    Yep that'd be a good idea to use the Pre-fixes somehow.
    I added pre-fixes to the stickies in the Adverts Support forum to help them stick out (and also the users aren't using the stickies.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=646


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    Star Lord
    Registered Users Posts: 30,123 ✭✭✭✭Star Lord


    Hope I'm not asking a stupid question here, but how could I go about getting pre-fixes activated on the T&P forum?


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    #17
    Red Sleeping Beauty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,443 ✭✭✭Red Sleeping Beauty


    DamoElDiablo wrote: »
    Hope I'm not asking a stupid question here, but how could I go about getting pre-fixes activated on the T&P forum?

    Stick up a Suggestion thread here.
    Make sure ye chase it up or it'll get lost ;)

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055483594 ee3f78c65e56ac79d873582759881ff6.jpg


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