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As cool as this is and so glad you went to all of the effort to type up the suggestion, I'm not sure how great this would be just in general. Like, the mod team spoke a few weeks ago, and most of us unanimously decided (not an oxymoron - nobody was against it, but not everyone responded to it, either) that the way question threads work currently isn't actually very beneficial long-term.
As is, question threads currently have a mentality of "I can't do question 7b can you show me how to do it so I can memorise it in case they give me that exact question in the exam?", as opposed to a, "how should I be trying to approach this question, so if I get something similar and don't know what to do I can still try and attempt it in the exam?" The latter leads to much better learning and development, but that's not currently how question threads work. The system you've designed works better for the first scenario, but the latter is aided much more by discussion. (furthermore, I feel in pretty much any board that isn't science or maths, the first scenario just wouldn't work outright)
But otherwise it's well-thought out, I like how thorough you were with the suggestion!
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My actual contribution to the thread: Tbh, I don't quite see the point of making question threads to be something "special". At the end of the day, anybody new that comes in and isn't used to forums (oh boy, back in the day on gamefaqs
) won't understand the significance of stickying a topic, so stickying it doesn't make it anything special to them. For us current users, we know that questions get asked in every thread anyway, so the question thread isn't special there, either. Really, they're just localised places for questions to concentrate, so people who like to give answers know where to focus. So, we should try to keep them at the top, and so stickying is special for that one reason. Except, those threads get posted in so much more than the rest of the threads anyway, that it's kind of redundant to sticky them? It's like if you walked up to a millionaire and said, "here's $50 to feed your family for the week". Like, they'll thank you, but you really haven't done a service - nobody's really benefitting from that exchange. Give that $50 to someone who's a paycheck away from being homeless (a resource thread), and they'll love you for it, and you've just changed somebody's life.
Tl;dr, not really any point to stickying threads, but it's also not hurting anyone. At this point, it's just about aesthetics, really.