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redfalconf35 wrote:
Does this forum have the ability to create stickies or some other attention grabbers for certain threads? I have just noticed over the last month and a half of reading this forum that there are a lot of people that come on here with questions, and they just dont know how to phrase them correctly. If they were to see a thread that said something like "How to post to get an answer", many would probably read it and therefore not get flamed when they ask a bad question.Most people (of those who we flame) wouldn't read such threads. The forum software can handle stickies, but I never seen one in New to Java or Java programming.
Kaj