Let me just look at some of the "old" things in the main post real quick:
We're on the process of doing that, since we've adding new section mods lately. Now all sections have mods yet, but we might aim for that.
As for the GMods thing, that's a "different" case, but we're looking into it (Basically, this could be looked as an accepted suggestion, tbh)
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Doesn't this conflicts with this:
Or would we be thinking about a separate quota for normal posts vs status?
And I don't know how worth it would it be to have upvotes on the status bar. While I can see the point, there are some of those status that could've been made into a topic, and get said rep. But maybe that's just me.
But my main concern here is the conflict of interest in the two suggestions.
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Those topics are in the announcements because they were brought in as new things. We didn't always use the report system.
The idea of those topics initially was to catch people's attention. Cowtao's topic was a redux of something that's been brough up a lot of times already, and both Hilda (back then) and Ark couldn't post in the Announcements section.
As for why those topics are not pinned, well... I don't know. I can understand why the mod that made it wouldn't want to pin it, but I don't know why the other mods decided against it. While I could move them to the Grand Hall and potentially pin them there, I'm more keen on a new sub-forum only for forum-related questions. I should have brought that up before.
Do you see how old those topics are? Don't bother. Really.
Back then we didn't have all those sections that we have now, so just leave them where they are. It's history.
What are people's opinion on this, right now? I can see two problems related to topics, but one will be fixed when Sheep does the thing. The other one, I don't know.
Just a few things for now. I have to check back on this every now and then, tbh.