72 upvotes, 5 direct replies (showing 5)
View submission: Renaming "sticky posts" to "announcements"
In after the moderator requirement was lifted:
we've noticed that for the most part stickies are used for community-centric announcements and event-specific mega-threads.
So why remove the ability to sticky links? This was useful for moderators in so many situations, especially on subs that revolve around content that isn't owned by the mods, e.g. game subs linking patches, or a project page linking to a separately-hosted FAQ.
It seems like you're just restricting things to what people *normally* do, but that doesn't mean people don't use things in other ways. There's no point in removing features already in use; "most people don't do it anyway" isn't a good enough reason - especially since you guys say you want to let sub mods do what they want in their own subs (granted no site rules are being broken).
Additionally, I'm really surprised a breaking change like this wasn't given more warning. I get that it may have been partially in response to the whole /r/news fiasco, but it seems like way too sudden a change, especially when it will end up breaking a lot of mods' workflows.
I'm open to working around it, but I really don't think this change needed to be made. Aside from the renaming, which is purely aesthetic, I don't like how this was handled.
I disagree with this entire change.
Comment by jes2 at 14/06/2016 at 03:45 UTC
26 upvotes, 2 direct replies
I disagree with this entire change.
yup, me too. I mod smaller subs, and I use stickies as much for drawing attention to quality content as I do for announcements. probably more actually. and now I can't sticky most links. it would also have been nice if this change wasn't made so abruptly. It really should have been announced in advance, unless it was in reaction to some kind of exploit.
Comment by [deleted] at 14/06/2016 at 02:39 UTC
9 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Agreed. In the subreddit I moderate, (/r/Vinesauce) we have to sticky important info about things like events, conventions, and contests. To do this, we have to link to other websites. (like http://www.vinesauce.com[1] and the forums.) All this will do is very negatively affect how the subreddit is ran.
Comment by sloth_on_meth at 14/06/2016 at 08:11 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
This is indeed an awful decision
Comment by Marted at 14/06/2016 at 11:01 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
/u/spez, /u/KeyserSosa, please read this!
Comment by [deleted] at 15/06/2016 at 02:15 UTC
1 upvotes, 1 direct replies