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View submission: Renaming "sticky posts" to "announcements"
Hey! Person in close contact with the mods of /r/homestuck here. This change utterly ruins many, many webcomic subreddits. I often browse things like, as I said before, /r/homestuck, but also /r/cucumberquest and /r/neokosmos. New updates are often stickied, and this change can make many people miss out on an update. (i'm also lazy and just want to click once, okay?) Not to mention that, for example, with homestuck, Volume 10 dropped on 6/12 and, of course, the mods stickied it. This would now be impossible/harder if you implemented this two-ish days ago.
This change is very obviously made just to try and stop a few subreddits from vote manipulation, and we all know that's a ban. This change will just hurt subreddits such as the webcomic ones I listed above. Be careful with your changes guys, don't go the way of Digg. Learn from mistakes. This is a clearly unpopular decision, so you should definitely be thinking of reversing it.
Comment by AnnaLemma at 15/06/2016 at 12:02 UTC
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Podcast subreddits too - especially the long-form podcasts, which only come out once every month or so. It's not as much of a big deal for the sub which I run 'cause it's new and tiny, but for the bigger ones? You bet.