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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 1464541" data-attributes="member: 5">...is becoming meaningless.  I recently realized that I hadn't noticed it for roughly a week because I had trained myself (when going to the General Forum) to automatically scroll down past it in its current usage for this thread -<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=77318" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=77318</a>So, I clicked open that thread to re-examine/reassess its usage and realized that thread was started on Feb 13th and the last post was March 25th.  Likely, as an ENnies coordination thread, it will be there for quite some time, perhaps several more months.The only reason I realized that I had managed to block out attaching the meaning "Attention" to the Attention icon was due to Eric's daylight saving time reminder posted on Saturday (a good use of the Attention icon).  Unfortunately, noticing the new Attention icon also had the effect of re-sensitizing me to the one that has been perpetually blinking atop the General Forum for the past two months.The point being, the use of an Attention icon for a thread that will be on the top of the General Forum for half a year or more has rendered it practically meaningless.  If, for instance, the ENnies production staff thread had been simply replaced by the daylight savings time thread, I likely wouldn't have noticed because I had unconsciously trained myself to ignore the Attention icon.It's like someone poking 10,000 people for half a year, every time he sees any of them and reminding them that there is some subject on which a dozen or so people need to be kept updated.  It's like an announcer at a football game interupting the beginning of each and every play, at every game throughout the season and into the playoffs, to inform people that anyone who would like to assist in setting up a party after the finals (to which only a fraction of the people in the stadium will be able or interested in attending) should contact the announcer.Wouldn't it be make more sense to make a weekly announcement about the progress of the ENnies production staff on the main news page (perhaps rotating which day of the week it appears to be sure and catch people who have differing schedules)?  There could be additional announcements if special information needed to be conveyed.  The weekly update could include requested help and information about positions that need to yet be filled.  In conjunction with that, couldn't a separate forum be created for coordinating the production staff project(s) so that varying aspects of the production be given separate threads so they won't have to be located by searching?  Maybe an additional "Announcement" thread could be added atop the forums directing those interested in helping the ENnies production to the forum dedicated to it?The Attention icon would be better restricted to uses that are immediate and limited.  And before some clever person tells me to "just ignore it", please keep in mind that the point of having the Attention icon in the first place is to not have it be ignored...</blockquote>

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