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View submission: Renaming "sticky posts" to "announcements"
Well this is an awful, awful change from my point of view. We use stickies extensively in /r/nfl to highlight quality user-submitted content.
We wish to continue having this option in order to promote good content.
This is a terribly poorly thought out change. Please reconsider.
Edit: Well, the moderator-only restriction has been lifted so this doesn't directly affect /r/nfl anymore, but the changes are still an extremely poorly thought out solution to something that should be solved with other means entirely.
Comment by DoctorDank at 14/06/2016 at 03:02 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
It's all about keeping /r/The_Donald from getting to the front page of /r/all. The admins don't care what effect that has on other subreddits, small ones like the ones I mod, or even bigger ones like /r/nfl. It's all about attempting to censor political speech the admins find objectionable. Notice they didn't do this a few months ago when /r/SandersforPresident would flood the front page, but they're doing it now, because they disagree with the politics of /r/The_Donald.
They don't care what effect this has on you. They don't care what effect it has on me. It's all about their politics. And it's sad.