[How To?] Restrict players to only view Stickies and Important Threads within a forum?

[Crazycat]

You can do this by a simple way:
- change the group(s) permissions in the forum settings and enable "can only view own threads" and "Can only reply to own threads"
- Create announcements in the forum to replace your 4 posts (copy & paste contents)

If you want to keep posts (and not announcements), you'll have to use a plugin (not sure it already exists) to override the "can view only own posts" for important & sticked threads.