The developers of our content management system WordPress (which has become wildly popular worldwide … it’s not just for little personal sites any more) also have given the “sticky” option for specific stories to be “stuck” to the top of the home page if the site publisher chooses. We use it on rare occasions if there is something so huge that it just has to stay at the top of the news section even as newer stories are published (and we always label it as such when we do). But we use it sparingly, since otherwise it would mess with the integrity of the “newest stuff first” format.