Comment by D0cR3d on 13/06/2016 at 22:37 UTC*

110 upvotes, 4 direct replies (showing 4)

View submission: Renaming "sticky posts" to "announcements"

Edit: See admins edit but they removed[1] the requirement that for sticking a self that it had to be made by a mod.

1: https://github.com/allthefoxes/reddit/commit/7e5f4a415dd0d7d98328dbde71c14c32479aa979

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So what happens to regular sticky posts. A few of my subreddits use sticky posts as a gathering of information. Can only mods make sticky aka announcement posts? What if a news info like E3 for the gaming subs, a user makes a post first, and we want to honor that by making a collective discussion thread? Are we not able to do that and we as mods would have to create our own announcement post just to sticky it?

Examples when we would sticky a users post:

1. They create a really detailed helpful post with information, and we want to direct users to it

2. Mods are asleep and a user gets the drop on a game update, or E3 coverage, or some other bit of information. We like to reduce redundant threads, so direct discussion to a single thread and make this a stickied megathread.

3. An important new story breaks out (current event) and the mods want to sticky that for visibility.

Users kinda get angry if mods remove threads to make their own, especially when users get a big drop on the mods in terms of time. Not exactly the best PR for us to remove a post and make our own just so we can sticky it to get users attention.

So what are we supposed to do? Make a announcement thread with a link to the users thread and lock our thread just as a redirect?

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Comment by amici_ursi at 13/06/2016 at 22:44 UTC

9 upvotes, 0 direct replies

That's the same way we use stickied posts in PoliticalDiscussion. Our mod team tries to schedule posts for big political events like debates and such, but we can't be there all the time and sometime a user gets there before us.

Since those threads can already be several hundred comments deep before a moderator shows up, there's no sense in duplicating the user's thread and confusing everyone with another.

Comment by bbrazil at 13/06/2016 at 22:58 UTC

5 upvotes, 0 direct replies

They create a really detailed helpful post with information, and we want to direct users to it

Speaking for a much smaller sub, this has also been the case on /r/hpmor a few times.

We like to reduce redundant threads, so direct discussion to a single thread and make this a stickied megathread.

Back when new chapters were coming out, we'd sometimes use stickies on whichever link-post submission "won" to direct the primary discussion to one place. We also removed duplicate submissions, so this isn't strictly necessary as long as a mod is awake.

Comment by KeyserSosa at 13/06/2016 at 23:22 UTC*

44 upvotes, 14 direct replies

Users kinda get angry if mods remove threads to make their own, especially when users get a big drop on the mods in terms of time.

That's a valid concern, and we're not tying to foment more animosity here! I've just removed the constraint that the author be a moderator.