How many v2 posters just scroll through the stickies?

by Portnoy Thu 07 Jun 2012, 3:39 pm

Useful for med-long term interest

by red_stag Thu 07 Jun 2012, 3:59 pm

I rarely if ever read the stickies.

I just check out the top 4-5 articles in General Rugby, Clubs and International.

by **Biltong** Thu 07 Jun 2012, 4:01 pm

Portnoy is this now in relation to the test match threads that have been made stickies for the weekend?

by Portnoy Thu 07 Jun 2012, 4:02 pm

View newest post Sticky:
Wallabies v Wales match day teams and matchday thread

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Smirnoffpriest View newest post
Today at 15:59

View newest post Sticky:
Ireland V All Blacks - Teams Announced and Matchday Thread

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Gibson View newest post
Today at 15:56

View newest post You have posted in this topic. Sticky:
Springboks vs England, squad announcements and matchday thread.

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biltongbek View newest post

Management re-think in order?

by **Biltong** Thu 07 Jun 2012, 4:07 pm

What is the issue? I don't get where you are going with this?

by Gibson Thu 07 Jun 2012, 4:14 pm

Of course the SI Test's should be stickys. Its the only rugby going on right now (save for the TOP14, but thats all kicking bore-fests). They are our respective NH countries trying to slay a few SH sides = more interest than anything else up here. Its logical Capin Portnoy.

But logic never stopped ya moaning before. Thats why we love you.

by **Biltong** Thu 07 Jun 2012, 4:18 pm

Gibson wrote:But logic never stopped ya moaning before. Thats why we love you.

Geez Gibbo, love is such a strong word. Wink

by Portnoy Thu 07 Jun 2012, 4:47 pm

OK a bad cut and pate from my previous post.

But what is to be gained by stickying current posts of interest.

cf: Pub and Random tractor.

by **Biltong** Thu 07 Jun 2012, 4:48 pm

What is to be lost by putting them there?

It is for quick reference and monday they go down.

by Cymroglan Thu 07 Jun 2012, 4:52 pm

Portnoy
Why do you get so worked up over minor details ?
It's a great idea having them as a sticky but I do wish we could get rid of the silly polls on the site.

by Portnoy Thu 07 Jun 2012, 4:55 pm

because there is a tendency (I think) to skip over the stickies.

Shame that thee isn't a 'newest post' filter

by **Galted** Thu 07 Jun 2012, 5:00 pm

never even noticed them until your post, thought they were all announcements

by Portnoy Thu 07 Jun 2012, 5:01 pm

What is the point of a sticky?

Tell me biltong.

by Thomond Thu 07 Jun 2012, 5:04 pm

I think it's in the name Portnoy. It's so the topic doesn't get lost around other active threads. It's so people can look at it whenever they want as it will always be there and they don't have to siphon through other threads searching for it.

by **Biltong** Thu 07 Jun 2012, 5:08 pm

Portnoy I highly suggest you take your issues up with an administrator.

You periodically have issues with the format of the forum and how it is managed.

PM an administrator, these issues are non productive and does not contribute to sporting debate in any way.

Perhaps then you can find the answer you are searching for as I am but a moderator and here to ensure polite debate amongst the members.

by red_stag Thu 07 Jun 2012, 5:09 pm

Portnoy wrote:because there is a tendency (I think) to skip over the stickies.

Shame that thee isn't a 'newest post' filter

There is, the one last commented on is automatically at the top of the lists.

The stickies just do this in a manual way.

by Portnoy Thu 07 Jun 2012, 5:16 pm

Thomond wrote:I think it's in the name Portnoy. It's so the topic doesn't get lost around other active threads. It's so people can look at it whenever they want as it will always be there and they don't have to siphon through other threads searching for it.

Of course that is true Thom.

I does make it easier to find https://www.606v2.com/t29128-an-appeal-for-raffle-help

by red_stag Thu 07 Jun 2012, 5:17 pm

Whats wrong with that Portnoy. Its a way of helping out one of our members.

I would bet my right arm that had they not included a sticky you would insist that one be made available.

by Pete C (Kiwireddevil) Thu 07 Jun 2012, 5:27 pm

red_stag wrote:Whats wrong with that Portnoy. Its a way of helping out one of our members.

I would bet my right arm that had they not included a sticky you would insist that one be made available.

I will point out that having a Super Rugby sticky was inspired by one of Portnoy's suggestions Wink

In the case of the match threads, I felt that stickying them would discourage mutiple threads (thereby saving me and Biltong work in merging them later Wink

), and would allow the match specific ones to stand out from the various other threads that were running on similar tangents.

I also (as a reference) added links to the tour preview v2Journal articles that myself and several other posters spent a fair amount of time creating as references - the Journal largely exists to publicise 606v2, and encourage more posters to come in, hence I try to encourage traffic from here to the Journal site. That (a) is a way of helping boost Google search rankings, and (b) some of our posters are writing some pretty good articles for the v2Journal, and I think they ought to get as wide an audience as possible.

by Portnoy Thu 07 Jun 2012, 5:36 pm

Kiwireddevil wrote:
red_stag wrote:Whats wrong with that Portnoy. Its a way of helping out one of our members.

I would bet my right arm that had they not included a sticky you would insist that one be made available.

I will point out that having a Super Rugby sticky was inspired by one of Portnoy's suggestions

In the case of the match threads, I felt that stickying them would discourage mutiple threads (thereby saving me and Biltong work in merging them later ), and would allow the match specific ones to stand out from the various other threads that were running on similar tangents.

I also (as a reference) added links to the tour preview v2Journal articles that myself and several other posters spent a fair amount of time creating as references - the Journal largely exists to publicise 606v2, and encourage more posters to come in, hence I try to encourage traffic from here to the Journal site. That (a) is a way of helping boost Google search rankings, and (b) some of our posters are writing some pretty good articles for the v2Journal, and I think they ought to get as wide an audience as possible.

I will point out that having a Super Rugby sticky was inspired by one of Portnoy's suggestions

Me?

I'm not even sure whether Super Rugby is a domestic RL affair or a SH rugby union job.

My two stickies are IRB rankings and RWC qualifiers.

Either of which won't be spent come next Monday.

by Pete C (Kiwireddevil) Thu 07 Jun 2012, 8:00 pm

Portnoy wrote:
Kiwireddevil wrote:
red_stag wrote:Whats wrong with that Portnoy. Its a way of helping out one of our members.

I would bet my right arm that had they not included a sticky you would insist that one be made available.

I will point out that having a Super Rugby sticky was inspired by one of Portnoy's suggestions

In the case of the match threads, I felt that stickying them would discourage mutiple threads (thereby saving me and Biltong work in merging them later ), and would allow the match specific ones to stand out from the various other threads that were running on similar tangents.

I also (as a reference) added links to the tour preview v2Journal articles that myself and several other posters spent a fair amount of time creating as references - the Journal largely exists to publicise 606v2, and encourage more posters to come in, hence I try to encourage traffic from here to the Journal site. That (a) is a way of helping boost Google search rankings, and (b) some of our posters are writing some pretty good articles for the v2Journal, and I think they ought to get as wide an audience as possible.

I will point out that having a Super Rugby sticky was inspired by one of Portnoy's suggestions

Me?

I'm not even sure whether Super Rugby is a domestic RL affair or a SH rugby union job.

My two stickies are IRB rankings and RWC qualifiers.

Either of which won't be spent come next Monday.

A few weeks back you were insisting that the SH posters should have their own "sticky" thread. That lead to me sticking the SXV previews ...

by Portnoy Thu 07 Jun 2012, 8:14 pm

A few weeks back you were insisting that the SH posters should have their own "sticky" thread. That lead to me sticking the SXV previews ...

Actually Kiwi, I was suggesting that there should be a SH sticky for local conversation - like the pub.

But once established (like the pub) the standard teflon plating should be applied.

Peasy.

by **Ozzy3213** Thu 07 Jun 2012, 10:37 pm

Portnoy wrote:
A few weeks back you were insisting that the SH posters should have their own "sticky" thread. That lead to me sticking the SXV previews ...

Actually Kiwi, I was suggesting that there should be a SH sticky for local conversation - like the pub.

But once established (like the pub) the standard teflon plating should be applied.

Peasy.

This sounds to me as if you are saying the pub is a solely NH thread, however I pretty sure it is open to all and spans the globe.

by Portnoy Thu 07 Jun 2012, 10:43 pm

Ozzy3213 wrote:
Portnoy wrote:
A few weeks back you were insisting that the SH posters should have their own "sticky" thread. That lead to me sticking the SXV previews ...

Actually Kiwi, I was suggesting that there should be a SH sticky for local conversation - like the pub.

But once established (like the pub) the standard teflon plating should be applied.

Peasy.

This sounds to me as if you are saying the pub is a solely NH thread, however I pretty sure it is open to all and spans the globe.

This sounds to me that you are impugning stuff that was neither implicit nor explicit Oz.

by Gibson Fri 08 Jun 2012, 10:17 am

Scrolling thro the stickies eh?

Portnoy, step away from the screen and clean yer keyboard man.

by red_stag Fri 08 Jun 2012, 10:43 am

Come back to the pub Portnoy.

by Effervescing Elephant Fri 08 Jun 2012, 11:09 am

Can we have a 'Portnoy's Rant of the Day' sticky, that way he won't take up so much forum space with his latest crusade.
What say you chaps?

by Cymroglan Fri 08 Jun 2012, 11:13 am

Gibson wrote:Scrolling thro the stickies eh?

Portnoy, step away from the screen and clean yer keyboard man.

Spoiler:

by SecretFly Fri 08 Jun 2012, 11:17 am

1. Not absolutely certain how a 'Sticky' differs from a normal thread? (A title and printed comments within for both??? Yes?)

2. I seldom truly look at them much less enter them to read them.

3. My practice on 606 is usually to sign in, check out My Posts to re-familiarize myself with my own mind! I tend to forget what articles I've been...em, contributing to.

If My Posts have cobwebs on them I then just shoot straight to International or Club to see what the rugby world is talking about today. Anything relevant should always get a mention in there somewhere and then if you need detail you might get directed to a 'Sticky'.
So it's My Posts, International, Club and over and back in that manner.

One truly irritating point though is that signing in bit. I tend to go to the rugby page first and then sign in...but hey ho, the signing in 'helpfully' brings me back to the reception desk and makes me walk all the way upstairs to the rugby department again! Wink

My knees will go under the strain.

by Cymroglan Fri 08 Jun 2012, 11:20 am

Why not tick the box Remember my username and password.
I also have a shortcut on my desktop that opens in the rugby section.

by SecretFly Fri 08 Jun 2012, 11:41 am

Cymroglan wrote:Why not tick the box Remember my username and password.
I also have a shortcut on my desktop that opens in the rugby section.

In all my life, and I guess I was around for the very beginning of ye olde internet...but I've never ever ticked that username and password box. I always go through the ritual.... Most pertinent reason for that is that I like to remember my Usernames and passwords...and over the eons have forgotten very many of each...some very important ones too. It's best to keep typing lest I forget.

Forgetting seems to be theme with me this morning!

by Adam D Fri 08 Jun 2012, 5:39 pm

Gibson wrote:Scrolling thro the stickies eh?

Portnoy, step away from the screen and clean yer keyboard man.

Is that like Rolling with my hommies?

by Shifty Fri 08 Jun 2012, 6:59 pm

I never notice the stickies Sad

by mankiaow Sat 09 Jun 2012, 7:34 am

What's a sticky?

by Cymroglan Sun 10 Jun 2012, 11:36 am

biltongbek wrote:Portnoy is this now in relation to the test match threads that have been made stickies for the weekend?

Could we not just leave them up till the summer tours have finished.
If any changes need doing to the original post I'm sure the Admin/Mods would be more than willing to edit them.

by Pete C (Kiwireddevil) Sun 10 Jun 2012, 11:49 am

Cymroglan wrote:
biltongbek wrote:Portnoy is this now in relation to the test match threads that have been made stickies for the weekend?

Could we not just leave them up till the summer tours have finished.
If any changes need doing to the original post I'm sure the Admin/Mods would be more than willing to edit them.

Cymro, I'm planning on having stickied thread for each test - yesterday's ones are all fairly heavily posted on, and odds are that if we tried to make a thread do all 3 tests we'd hit the 1000-ish post wall where the board software starts deleting posts off the top of threads.

by Cymroglan Sun 10 Jun 2012, 11:51 am

Cheers Kiwi I had forgot about the 1000 post filter

by **Biltong** Sun 10 Jun 2012, 1:20 pm

Cymroglan wrote:Cheers Kiwi I had forgot about the 1000 post filter

cymro, there isnt really a 1000 post filter, it's just that the mods/adimn can't count past 1000.

It creates undue confusion. Whistle

by Pete C (Kiwireddevil) Sun 10 Jun 2012, 1:29 pm

biltongbek wrote:
Cymroglan wrote:Cheers Kiwi I had forgot about the 1000 post filter
cymro, there isnt really a 1000 post filter, it's just that the mods/adimn can't count past 1000.

It creates undue confusion.

Speak for yourself Biltong Wink

by **Biltong** Sun 10 Jun 2012, 1:30 pm

Kiwireddevil wrote:
biltongbek wrote:
Cymroglan wrote:Cheers Kiwi I had forgot about the 1000 post filter
cymro, there isnt really a 1000 post filter, it's just that the mods/adimn can't count past 1000.

It creates undue confusion.

~~Speak for yourself~~ It's supposed to be a secret Biltong

by Pete C (Kiwireddevil) Sun 10 Jun 2012, 2:00 pm

biltongbek wrote:
Kiwireddevil wrote:
biltongbek wrote:
Cymroglan wrote:Cheers Kiwi I had forgot about the 1000 post filter
cymro, there isnt really a 1000 post filter, it's just that the mods/adimn can't count past 1000.

It creates undue confusion.

~~Speak for yourself~~ It's supposed to be a secret Biltong