Pinned Topics

[sephiro499]

Hi guys, brand new to the forum and I noticed that all of the topics were pinned. Am I missing something or did I just not go past enough pages (I went through 9) to see the regular posts?

I thought pinned topics were frequently referenced, therefore they are put first to make it easier to find.

[CarlaB]

They pin all the topics here. I've never been on another board, so I don't know how it works elsewhere.

[Ursa Major]

Actually, what you are referring to, Mike, is a sticky topic. Some forums have a pin symbol to show a sticky topic, but pinning is something different. Stickies always stay at the top, are often locked and are there only for reference for the most part.

We don't have sticky topics here (even though for some issues it might be a good idea). Pinning is not meant for the same purpose. Here, when a person posts a new topic, that post goes to the very end of the particular forum, until a moderator reads it, deems it appropriate and then pins it (often moving it to the right forum in the process, if the poster mistakenly chose the wrong forum for his/her topic).

The way we do it has the advantage of weeding out spam, abuse etc., before everybody is exposed to it, eliminating duplicate postings of the same topic, and making sure that threads are in the appropriate forum.