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Sticky Topic "About 6 Gen Ipods, 120GB Ipods, and Ipod Classics"

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vsl2005:
This question seems to show up at least twice a week and it certainly seems greatly to annoy our long suffering moderators.  ;)

They are quite right that this question has been asked and answered to death, and that new forum users should do a cursory search for this information.

But since this question has been answered in a number of places on the Rockbox site, perhaps in the interest of peace you might consider making the excellent response SOAP posted a sticky topic at the top of the General Discussion list?

Just a thought. Thanks as always to the moderators and developers for your good work!

Chronon:
Thanks for your consideration.   ;)

I know there's a general opposition to sticky bloat on these forums.  But maybe a small reminder in the Apple Installation forum sticky could help remind some of these users (also of non-1st generation Nanos) to check the front page for whether or not their player is supported.

Llorean:
The problem is, people who don't search generally also don't read the stickies. If they read the stickies, they'd know to search first. I don't see how this will make any significant reduction in the amount of times it gets asked.

GodEater:
I'm forced to agree with Llorean.

When I originally posted the "My ipod installation has gone wrong" sticky in the Apple installation forum, it was for the same reason - the same questions came up over and over, and we answered them over and over. I managed to argue Llorean into making that post a sticky, but it didn't really help. People STILL didn't read it, and just asked the same questions.

Llorean:
I personally think the less stickies you have, the more likely people are to read them. As soon as you get 3 or so, people start seeing that there's several and don't think they're as important.

Many message boards just collect "interesting" posts as stickies, I think instead having the stickies more or less just be the "required" reading where possible (as in, posts every user of that forum should read) helps those who do read them the most (by not wasting their time having many stickies they don't want/need to read).

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