Opinions sought! Too many stickies!
 

Greetings forum members.

Anyone else feel like there are too many stickies on the boards? I find it tiresome to scroll past them and wondered if anyone else was bothered enough to potentially want to sort out which ones to unsticky. They wouldn't disappear completely, they'd just not be held at the top anymore.

Plz vote.

Tbh most are 3-4 so not exactly scrolling past hundreds to get down to threads.

I like some of the stickies. They have useful info. I don't know if we need all of them but there are definitely some I would want to keep. I don't find them too annoying I just skim past them to bold threads with new posts.

A lot, if not most of them are redundant now. Lots of outdated resources and site staff lists, the guide to chat etc. And I really hate accidentally opening them, especially on mobile. I think the site would be nicer to use on mobile without them.

And lots of the ones that are left could be merged, I think?

I see your point Lio especially about staff lists and chat guides and things. Plus accidentally finger flailing into threads is super annoying on mobile.

I am thinking of two advice/ info style ones in particular that I would want to keep but have no strong opinions on any others. The two are: A list of useful threads in Abuse and Bullying and The Self Harm Information Package in Self Harm Discussion and Support. Although I appreciate some elements in these may be out if date.


If we were to merge threads perhaps we just need Rules and a list of useful threads as a sticky in specific support forums. And just rules in other forums?

Unless we want to go full maverick and get rid of what to post in this forum stickies! :shocked:

I think a fair few could be gotten rid of. For example I think that gsa has too many. I think that the suicide information package in serious is useful though that needs updating (for example the Samaritans phone number is wrong on that particular thread). I think some are irrelevant as the demographic of ryl has changed since they were created and the majority of people here are not minors.

Tl;dr keep some, get rid of some and update the information where needed on the ones we are gonna keep.

The ones on the ED board are confusing, for example there are two that say ‘new rules please read’ and you have to then look at the dates they were posted to figure out which one is the newest one. Also, I think the whole infraction system is out of date and while I agree a place like this needs rules, I don’t feel we need all of them anymore. One rule that basically said ‘don’t be a dick’ would suffice I feel.

This made me really laugh. I agree, though!

Actually disagree with the idea of one rule. Been a lot of other mental health related places like that and there tends to be a lot of emotional blackmail and very inappropriate things said. We like that this has rules around that type of stuff. It makes it feel much safer.

We don't really have a preference on stickies because we just scroll past them. But we are always on a laptop and do not do mobile things so we can see where that might be an issue.

There was a big initiative to overhaul the rules but it didn’t get done and there’s no one around with the power to change pages on the website so that’s a no go anyway!
Very little can be done about any published material regarding the infraction system but I do think we’ve always tried to adapt to the site’s needs when giving out any infractions (which is really incredibly rare- three official warnings/infractions in all of 2022). Open to feedback on this, though of course can’t discuss any particular case pubicly.

*sniggers*
Jenna Said 'pubicly'….. XD

I have no useful contributions at all. I just came to point this out…. :D

:crying:
So i did!! Don’t know whether to change it or leave it for your entertainment!

I do feel reassired by this. Just feel that a banning sustem when we have so few members is kind of counterproductive, also had concerns that there was no mods to do the ‘three mods have to agree’ thing. This isn’t a dig against you Jenna, or an attempt to suggest you would do things maliciously just because you didn’t like someone but its a wah of keeping things fair.

Well, banning is separate! Ban spambots all the time!

But how will I know about discount Ugg boots when you are like that :*(

we must be getting more well behaved as we age

Or we are blossoming into truly, subtle evil geniouses, Camden :D

also a possibility!

What about the members that were permabanmed that sometimes show up, do we still report our suspicions or are they allowed back?