Duplicate "Announcement?"

[Yoshi]

We already have a option to make a thread "Sticky", but what about a option to make a thread a "Announcement" ? Thats something that I really miss from other forum softwares.
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Explanation:
There is a check-box "Announcement?" that can be ticked when creating a new thread. Under this check-box, there should be two more options, where two of those are to select in which forums the Announcement would appear in: All Forums? or Select Forums: (Forum List here)
The Announcement(s) would act much like a Sticky, appearing at the top of forums.

The Lock option to disable replies to the thread should also work for Announcements, so the thread poster could choice if he would like to have replies to the announcement or not.

 

[Paul B]

This has already been suggested.
Please see this thread: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/suggestion-quick-topic-sticky-announcement-threads.1095/

This is what Kier had to say about them:

For the record, we have not planned to add an announcements function that works in the same way as vBulletin's. We think the functionality can be achieved through other means.