On another forum I was on, there was a "Tiny Little Questions" thread stickied in the Help forum that people used for smaller/quick questions, like if they forgot how to do something or if they anticipate that there is a simple answer to their question. People didn't have to use that thread for smaller questions; they could still make threads for their questions regardless of how big their question was. But the thread really helped.
Sometimes I see people not want to make new threads for new small questions, and sometimes I see people mention in their first post that they know that their question is small and/or quick (often because they know the answer exists but just forgot it). (And of course, since it's currently established to make a new thread for any and all questions, people won't always say if they know their question is small or quick =P)
Maybe we could also have a "Tiny Little Questions" sticky?
Pros
Assuming that the thread picks up steam, this could half-clean up this board, especially during events when there's a whole lotta straggler-did-not-find-Event-board and "Wait, event? What?"-type questions + April Fool's Day ;P But also just in general! If the thread picks up steam, then we won't have so many tiny topics with just one or two replies in this board. There aren't that many particularly big questions, but the few that we do get from time to time would have more visibility
Cons
The plethora of stickies in this forum is the main reason I'm not enthusiastically trying to get y'all to like this idea lol
Thread needs to pick up steam first (not really a con since nothing worse will really happen if we just have a dead sticky...)
Thread might pick up too much steam? Maybe? I mean this board is normally pretty slow to begin with so I don't really see this happening
Other points
Searchability should not be affected too much unless people go back and edit out their original questions (which also applies to question threads, so this isn't a strong argument). The answer posts will not have relevant post titles, but I imagine people would quote whoever they're answering in the TLQ thread.
I don't think people can really misuse the thread (aside from the ways you can misuse any thread)... If there's a post that doesn't belong in there (e.g. a suggestion, "please delete my account", big question) then another user can probably redirect the original poster--this seems to work well enough now when people post threads with pet design suggestions or admin-only questions or account deletion requests
KOEDEGA wrote:I think the only down side is perhaps a question could be lost and never answered through the thread. It probably wouldn't move really fast, but I imagine at some point some questions might be missed or go unanswered.
I think this also applies to question threads now. Question threads that are still unanswered when they reach the second page can be bumped, so I think we could just allow unanswered questions in a TLQ thread to be "bumped" every page or 2 pages or something like that if unanswered.
It's been over 10 years since 
