Hmm, besides keeping the fanfic lounge up there...
I don't think the Announcement thread really warrants that much of a stick - after all, if someone is interested in your fic, then there's thread subscriptions, one's signature, PM lists... it could stay around as a non-stick thread though, IMO.
Maybe the guides could use a joining/re-post for organisation's sake - they are all there to help one way or another after all, bar the reviewing guide as I feel that should be kept separate from the writing guides (they serve basically different audiences for the most part anyhow, and the other guide/s can link to it as well). I'm also a bit iffy on the importance of 'Example of a good fanfic' - but if merged with other guides (and maybe touched up a smudge?), then should work...?
As others have said, maybe the Review Trading Center should be look at and possibly adjusted. Furthermore I might suggest that maybe an index of people willing to review fics along with this system could work as a thread? Kinda like the Beta Place, only one has profiles for reviews, and people contact them whenever they want a review.
That in itself would probably be rather messy as a thread though, never mind it joining the Beta Place as well IF done. I don't really see the Beta Place working along with a Review thing of some sort at the same time - would be just too cluttered and confusing for users, I'd imagine, and they do differ a fair bit.
I may though repost the Beta Place - keep it basically the same and all. (But steal the 1st 2/3 posts for the sake of it so I don't run out of character space all the time/get more organisation from that, and also remove the current clutter). Yay/nay on this thought?
So in summery... I also think we actually might as well go and give the writing guides a good old merge and touch-up, or rather a rewrite even - nothing like a fresh start, after all, and reduces the number significantly. I should be able to help, methinks, if needed... we could all get into it together though, ideally.
Have the reviewing guide separate from that as its own sticky.
Fanfic lounge as another sticky.
Beta Place also separate.
Reviewing request/system thingamajig sticky by itself. That makes 5. One of those (like the writing guides) could go in the main fanfic forum section as well, IMO... those are my random, current thoughts.
Furthermore... I've gotten myself some experience with the wonders of Macromedia Flash (software major projects, whee). Do you guys/girls/things reckon there's a benefit to, for example, on top of a written form of the Beta place with Beta Readers and their profiles and clients, have an interactive version of that via a Flash movie (.swf or html)? i.e. Menus for those categories and so forth so members can just browse through that info? It could even come with colours!
Shouldn't be too hard for me to make up at all, and I'd be able to update it easily enough and also could apply to stuff outside the Beta Place as well, I'd imagine (like a reviewing thing if applicable). AND, If I REALLY wanted to go fancy-pants I could even knock up a system which any user can update their info/status by themselves as well easily enough, as that kinda was my project so I know how to do it. (Hurrah for databases). Most people have Flash player... 8 or above these days anyway, really (F.Player 10's really easy/free to download and basically 'needed' already), and either it'll be in the thread as an attachment (after checking, PC's attachment system allows for GIANT ones, so yay) or just linked to at the top or something like that... throw thoughts at me about if this would actually have any point to it, etc - just throwing this out there. =)