I tend to agree on this point too.  I do believe that nullius has had an ability to raise a lot of good points and even to frame matters in interesting ways, but surely his posts have not tended to be newbie-friendly as a whole. but that would not mean that he is not capable of maintaining a consistent streak of newbie-friendliness but surely many of us (including yours truly have our doubts).. 

I also have my doubts about nullius's ability to consistently refrain from allowing matters to become personal - when they should attempt to be topic-focused - especially if he is wanting his thread to get promoted to pinned status or to take the place of this thread that is already in pinned status (I am not claiming to be an expert about pin status, either, since I just realized what the term means - even though I did realize that there were some threads that fit such a descriptive status).

Of course, we know that theymos has the ability to change the ownership of a thread, but that does not even seem like the most obvious way forward in this case - unless he were to see that a member (who would end up taking over ownership) already has a track record of sustaining the basic kind of information in a thread like this, and that surely would be up to theymos to conclude if he believes that nullius has such abilities (likely based on past posting conduct - and personally, I am having my doubts that theymos would reasonably be able to come to such conclusion - or even if he would want to get into making that kind of a determination), so in that regard, the creating of a similar thread that links back to this one or even updates some of the contents of its posts might substantiate the pinning of such thread...

so in that regard, if the similarly substantive replacement thread ends up doing a good job of equally (and likely better) presenting the same information, then the thread ends up speaking for itself in terms of whether it is newbie-friendly (and focused enough) - rather than potentially taking chances with the changing of ownership of an existing thread, and really, I wonder how common change of ownership on the forum happens to be anyhow?  Maybe the WO thread is the ONLY example, and there was a bit of a unique circumstance with the change of ownership with that thread in terms of both how it had become a kind of "one-stop-shopping" information sharing  (troll-box) point in the forum, and the seemingly widespread preferences in keeping it going (as a kind of forum chat area) - including then having some of the rules of that thread to be expressedly unique from other forum thread rules.