Agreed. Isn't that another purpose of a message board? Interaction.lousy idea. much more entertaining responses from the masses
Let me share my philosophy on pinning. I have friends tell to pin this post and pin that post all the time. It got to the point that everyone believed their post should be pinned.
My philosophy is that if the post is good enough, the people will keep it up top. If it is not, it will go down.