Like the post says, I come here often and for the past month or so there's been a huge abundance of stickied posts. Don't get me wrong things are happening and at this point in time I get it, there's lots to read. Usually it doesn't bug me but enough is enough - Look at the front page at the current moment I have 19 stickies Half of them are over a day old the others are sprinkled between 8-23hrs between the other posts.
Is it possible to filter stickied posts in order of post creation? I know that some things don't pick up right away. But because "HOT" has all the stickies but yet are utterly all over the place, I browse thru new and rising and don't know which threads will end up on stickied hours and hours later, and I just don't know how to browse thru GA anymore, I think there should be a little more mindfulness, I love you guys you guys are some of the best collections of sleuths, nerds, and creative thinkers I want to adore you better, damnit. I do appreciate the efforts being put in. Just perhaps a little pruning to make things more... copacetic.
Suggestion from me would be to limit number of stickies, so that It's not grossly over a page long (if everything is stickied, stickies lose their meaning). Filter stickies by post creation.
Also if you want my $0.10 on the site, I'd love a project where we can look thru some of the Conspiracy -> fact posts the ones that got it 10/10 prediction. Project Memory Whole - Nothing is ever forgotten, we could use a score card of the times we were right.
It's been a bit out of hand lately, but there's a lot going on. I trust the Mods and give them the benefit of the doubt. But lately, yes, I've been feeling you on the OP.
Yea I just want organization because I'm getting lost in the weeds - quite literally lost in our front page. It's hard to navigate because everything has a red background sticky. I'm not complaining on the content of what's sticky, not directly. From a user standpoint it's hard to know what I've already checked out of what are cold stories vs hot.
Maybe... Change the color depending on how long the sticky has been up? Red 1-3 Hrs Orange 3-8 hrs Light Blue 8-23 Hrs Dark blue 24+hr?
Just idk some sort of rhyme or rhythm to it all would help is what I'm getting at.
I figure top of rising is "Hot" Stickies are super hot
But too many of either and they are as significant. It just makes it seem that mods are just giving a random selection to some at times as well, I've seen people say "this isn't even true" or "it's old news - it's past that" on some stickies.
A little effort in how to approach this will really shine clear to the readers and users I guarantee it.
Yea, kinda how I feel. I just want some regrouped effort to see if a few very slight changes could be made. We want to be easily read, and the way I would take it if I saw this mess was that new users would be overwhelmed in seconds, then realize all the info is old because the stickies are so long, making it seem like it's actually behind the pulse on things.