I would like to suggest (or request) a forum where threads could all be made 'Sticky' (not able to be deleted). It would be for threads that contain information that would be of value to all forum members and frequently referred to. Examples would be the O Scale Freight car guides and the Natty Boh threads that recently came up missing. The threads being 'Sticky' would hopefully prevent this from happening in the future.
I realize it would probably require more work for the moderators, but hopefully it would be minimal and only a few threads from time to time would qualify for entry into the forum. Not sure what would qualify a thread for entry? Possibly number of views, length of thread or just an interesting subject that's known to be of interest to all or if it's a known popular thread? I also realize that having too many forums is bad and can be confusing, but this would be a special forum. Adding more 'Sticky's' to the existing forums might be ok, but that could easily use up the first page or two of entries and make it hard to get to the new posts. However, the moderators know much more about this than I do, so I defer to them on implementation.
Anyway, thanks for reading this and giving it your consideration. I will understand if it doesn't happen, but I do think there should be some way to protect some of the better and more informational threads here that folks refer to a lot.
