Sticky?

Question

I'm guessing there aren't many moderators around but, I think creating sticky threads that stay at the top of the forum would help. Example: problems with the ipod touch and syncing new january applications, it's been asked 40 times, and I've had to reply to all 40 of them. Now why can't the thread I made be stuck to the top so that people don't have to do this? Almost every other electronics forum has this feature.

Answer 1

Now why can't the thread I made be stuck to the top so that people don't have to do this?
The forums software doesn't have a stickies feature.
it's been asked 40 times, and I've had to reply to all 40 of them
That, unfortunately, is an issue in most technical forums: for one reason or another, people are reticent about using the search function, so answers have to be repeated over and over again. At least in AD, experienced members are generally forgiving of that (hmm, or maybe it's just that they like the easy opportunities to score Solved stars by cutting and pasting ready-made answers they keep in their home databases...), unlike other forums I participate in where people are more than ready to n00b-smack people for making the mistake of asking a question for the fortieth time.
On the upside, when you reach Level 2, you will be able to submit the answers to oft-asked questions to the User Tips Library (linked at the bottom right of the main page). If you haven't looked through there already, you may find that there are a lot of useful answers to which you can steer people, all of them created in reaction to exactly the type of issue you are posting about here.
Good luck!