The list of stories on the frontpage is generated by the function topstories. That's where you'll want to join a sticky post, either hardcoded or saved in a separate file like the arc/news/topstories file.
Disabling comments seems a little more involved. You'll need to add an attribute (say allowcomments) to the item deftem, and then check for it in:
a) displaying the commentlink in display-story, and
b) comments-active, which is checked before displaying the comment-form
Ok, great, thanks for reply! I'm still really new to arc so, to be honest, it doesn't really make sense without looking at the actual. Hopefully, later today/this week, I will have some time to sit down and really look into things. Once I get something functioning I will definitely send a pull request.
