I have an idea that I think is good, but I don't think the way the forum works allows this. What if every thread where the last post had an attachment ( so an unrated replay on this board ) and is under about 2,3 days old would be stickied. It would be unstickied when there are comments, but will be stickied again. That's all possible, but the question was "Could that be automated?" or else the local mods would be very busy, that's not really useful.