59 upvotes, 5 direct replies (showing 5)
View submission: Renaming "sticky posts" to "announcements"
The name sticky was perfect. It told you exactly what it was, a stickied post at the top of the subreddit. The name announcement is not obvious to be a stickied posts, nor do they cover the whole ground like "sticky" did.
Gaming subreddits in particular will have many stickied posts about discussion, and some of them might not be related to specific events and will not in any way be an announcement but rather just a stickied thread to funnel repetitive or simple submissions to. I'm with /u/sidipi 100% on this one regarding his comment[1]. - If there is an announcement for a gaming subreddit, it will most likely be a flair representing that rather than having the sticky tell it.
1: /r/changelog/comments/4ny8y6/renaming_sticky_posts_to_announcements/d47zt9i
Most people will refer to it as a sticky, such as "See the stickied post", rather than referring to an announcement, as it is not really explanatory.
I would imagine that a lot of subreddits, especially related to gaming, will probably do a css trick to change the `announcement` text to `stickied`. Well, I might as well create the simplest one now using something like this (font-size may have to be changed if subreddit CSS is different):
.stickied-tagline{
font-size: 0;
}
.stickied-tagline::after{
content:"stickied post";
font-size: x-small;
}
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And when it comes to link posts, if we had a FAQ page from the developers themselves or a forum post on their official forum that a dev made, being able to sticky that was great. But now we would have to circumvent that by having the link in the body to be able to sticky it, what's the point? Being able to sticky links when it was introduced was an amazing feature. Disabling it again is just restricting something that worked well for what it was. If it's about karma, don't count it for the stickied post, easy.
What really is the reason for removing a feature that worked well? I will cite what was said in the introductory post about stickying links
This has some potentially interesting uses for things like [...], important news articles, and so on.
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This seems like a rushed decision that has not taken into account the whole community but rather the set few ones that are similar to /r/news. What's the reason for the change with sticky posts? From what I can see, there is none mentioned in the OP
Comment by [deleted] at 14/06/2016 at 12:47 UTC
7 upvotes, 1 direct replies
It's just done to piss off /r/the_donald who uses stickies as a way to promote posts and switches them every few hours. That's it. Euphemism bullshit and non-sense talk but all of it is to make sure the "vote manipulation" that happens at the donald doesn't happen anymore.
Comment by geo1088 at 14/06/2016 at 03:39 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
+1 for using `x-small` instead of `12px` or whatever like everyone else tends to. Thanks for the snippet, and I totally agree with everything here.
Comment by s-mores at 14/06/2016 at 20:39 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Agreed, it makes zero sense and tries to push a view that stickies should be used for announcements only.
Comment by JoeJoker at 14/06/2016 at 16:46 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
What's the reason for the change with sticky posts? From what I can see, there is none mentioned in the OP
The admins don't like /r/the_donald and its constant rapidly-updated cycle of meme stickies.
Comment by Riitoken at 14/06/2016 at 20:29 UTC
-1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I agree with you and I still have no idea how to sticky / unsticky anything. The links are just gone.