48 upvotes, 8 direct replies (showing 8)
View submission: Renaming "sticky posts" to "announcements"
Is this change inspired by /r/The_Donald's unorthodox use of stickies? If I wasn't already aware of that subreddit, I would think this change is simply regressive, but it looks like you're targeting them in particular.
edit: Thank you for reverting the moderator-only requirement
Comment by [deleted] at 13/06/2016 at 22:43 UTC
16 upvotes, 3 direct replies
Probably that, as well as any future subreddits that might try to use that technique to force their content to the front page.
Comment by boa13 at 13/06/2016 at 22:52 UTC
11 upvotes, 2 direct replies
How did they abuse the feature?
Comment by FableForge at 14/06/2016 at 00:03 UTC
6 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I'm more disappointed by the cowardice of not daring to name /r/The_Donald directly, than by the willingness to sacrifice every other sub (by nerfing a useful feature) just to get at them.
Comment by HailCaesarSoze at 13/06/2016 at 23:22 UTC
6 upvotes, 0 direct replies
No (it is).
Comment by jhc1415 at 13/06/2016 at 23:12 UTC
9 upvotes, 1 direct replies
yes.
Comment by [deleted] at 13/06/2016 at 23:39 UTC
9 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Yes, it is an obvious deliberate attempt to sabotage /r/The_Donald.
Comment by fdagpigj at 14/06/2016 at 01:47 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
... come to think of it, I recall reading somewhere that if you remove a post and re-approve it, its hotness score will be calculated from the time it was re-approved? If that's true you could just wait for a post to have a few thousand upvotes, then remove it for a split second and reapprove and boom, it's #1 on /r/all... I think I must've misunderstood something there though.
Comment by Jordan117 at 14/06/2016 at 00:12 UTC
2 upvotes, 2 direct replies
And of course, one of their mods is already openly discussing using CSS to circumvent this rule change and create their own sticky system that includes links[1]. Hopefully the admins grow a spine and drop the banhammer on them if their brigading continues.