I’d prefer there not be “stickies”. I don’t mind the rules. It’s hard to imagine any great thread is going to be hampered by having to avoid a few conversational conventions.
The stickies are something else.
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They appear at the top of every room display. Most people don’t read them, and the ones that have are regulars, and don’t need to be told in the first place.
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They take up server power. Notice that when the SDBM is slow, messages paint themselves one-by-one? Every one of those stickies is adding about 5% overhead to the part of the download burden that’s involved particularly in retrieving messages.
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Administrators, I know you’re in charge. I admire and respect your work. I’ll send chocolate flowers on Halloween. Just leave it. Put the rules in a FAQ someplace, and don’t mess with the board’s function, putting up “dumbo signs” that safety is everyone’s business, that loose lips sink ships, that a penny saved is a penny depreciated.