New procedures relating to stickying threads

Phunners,

As you all know, we've been getting more and more milestone threads posted these days, which of course is a good thing, as you guys are the ones who make this place so great. We've been trying to come up with a reasonable way to reward such threads, but keep it under control at the same time in terms of stickies, which we've been seeing lots of of late and is something we had to address.

What we've come up with is that we'll sticky milestone threads by the thousand, as opposed to 2,500 for example. Once a member has reached 20,000 posts, then we will sticky threads 5,000 later, such as 20,000, then 25,000 then 30,000 and so on. An exception to this rule is 1,500, being a colour change.

In terms of 'thanks' celebration threads, should people wish to do a milestone thread for this, we'll sticky them every 10,000 thanks. And the same number celebration threads (4,444 & 6,666 for example) will no longer be stickied. It was a nice concept when it was first done a while back, we don't see them as threads that should be getting sticky time, especially as for example, 8,888 can become 10,000 pretty quickly).

This of course isn't to say that people can't post milestone threads when they see fit, we're just explaining the new processes that are in place in terms of stickying.

Cheers,

Kieks (on behalf of the Mod team)