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Interesting thoughts....
I do believe a sticky is very important way to emphasise and promote certain activity..
Many people are using EQ6 mount for example. And many people are modifying it or just performing necessary maintenance... EQ6 sticky would have been welcomed by many, I am sure.
I am not sure how many people are followers of Mel Bartels (I am... but only to the certain degree - I reserve my right to modifications to this wonderful system wherever I feel it is justified from the engineering point of view:-) )
But, if Bartelisation had its own sticky, I am sure there would have been many more individuals and groups who would dare to embark on this low cost way to obtain the affordable but good automated telescope system.
Perhaps we should start to acknowledge more the promotional value of sticky and try to use it to show some direction in which the amateur astronomers community should go in the future: More science, more education and less commercialism.
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