I am not sure how it got to be a "sticky." Yes, stickies are ignored roundly, and, also, the 50+ forum is getting a whole "rash" of stickies lately, making any one of them more ignorable.

We had discussed this a couple of years ago and folks generally wanted to keep stickies at a minimum. Some forums have so many stickies that it takes a "page down" to get to the active threads.