The thing I've noticed is that the noobs continuously look past the stickies. I'd say a good portion of the questions asked by new posters in the BC could be easily answered by themselves if they just took the time to read the damn stickies. That right there tells me that a) you are impatient and b) incapable of finding things out on your own. Perhaps the awesome regs who consistently come to the BC are growing tired of answering the same questions over and over and over and over and over...

To remedy this problem, maybe the web guys here at FTR can rearrange this board or give it a makeover. This board is running the old phpBB2. If they upgrade to the new phpBB3, the stickies + announcements all appear separated on the top of each forums so it's much harder to miss. Of course this could be done with a few simple programming skills to the current board as well. Just the 2 cents from a former web guru.