I think there needs to be a better way to get announcements noticed by people, which is evident with the new sticky message in this forum. There needs to be something to make people notice it. Seeing as how the annoucement is always static and on top is it feasible to make the background an animated gif that changes colors...kind of like a siren. But only for the first few days it is new. I think it would grab attention a lot better.

One thing is clear. Something should probably be done when you have to make a thread to tell people to read the annoucement.