Yes I think that would be a good idea, and private messaging and the ability to edit your own posts.

thought it would be a good idea reading brendan's first paragraph, but then after seeing the 3 choices that brendan listed, it seems like a terrible idea. none of those posts are important, and the third "osc" one seems like someone asked a somewhat stupid question(the person was looking for a pre-built easy way out not realizing how easily you can do it with max/msp; it's a little too much of a noob question to be a sticky). but that's just me.

i hate you can't edit your posts after awhile. can deal without private messaging, but seems like this new web-forum is more basic and stripped of useful things that the old forum had or at least compared to every other forum i visit. wouldn't want to push cycling too hard in this area while they struggle so hard to keep up in every other(m4l, jitter, 64-bit-audio, linux-support... so many more useful things could use improving).

@Noob4Life

"I realise others may have different ideas as to what constitutes an important thread, and that's what 'favourites' is for".

How about a separate area, more like a Wiki perhaps, with a handful of these topics? Not sure how the topics would be decided upon or which parts/patches of postings would make it on there, but we could see how it goes. I think stickies would get to be too much for these kinds of topics, they're better used for things like the Common Max Arcana, that was a good pick.

There definitely are a dozen or so very common threads which could use their own "definitive" (as best we can) discussion and examples, like those mentioned above, or signal-accurate timing, file formatting/folder management, making Standalones, CPU efficiency with various objects/patching techniques, etc.

@brendan

ya, i was just trying to echo that statement... 'but that's just me'.

(and please feel free: my friends just refer to me as 'noob')

would be great to have categorical favoriting/listing or wiki(some combo of seejay's and brendan's ideas)

Yes, you're right seejayjames, a single sticky could rapidly get cumbersome. As for 'selection criteria', how about I review the activity over the last 6 months and identify which threads have received X replies from at least Y posters? Then the topics themselves could be less of an identifier. These threads might then be collated into a wiki elsewhere.

Brendan

So, I conducted a quick 6-month review of the forums (All) using the following criteria:

posts must >= 20

people must >= posts/4

thread age single prevaling theme

most popular themes:

a few Jitter topics, some MSP audio-specific stuff, some externals and a number of Apple-related apps.

In keeping with the ethos of the original thread, I will post the exact results if this thread attracts [people >= posts/4].

Brendan