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View submission: Announcing Consolidated Pinned Posts on Android
As a moderator this is seems incredibly counterintuitive.
We sticky posts because we *want* people to see them. Whether that be a rule change, contest, upcoming news, a megathread, we sticky them to be seen.
Does this "two visits" rule reset if a stickied post changes?
Comment by telchii at 03/10/2022 at 21:28 UTC
14 upvotes, 3 direct replies
It will reset if a stickied post is updated or changed.
Pinned posts will automatically expand again if there have been any updates made to the post or if a new one has been added to the community. We believe this will help signal to redditors that new information has been added to the subreddit by mods, and that they should check it out.
Comment by Sephardson at 03/10/2022 at 21:41 UTC
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Another counterintuitive perspective is this:
Sticky blindness is a scrolling behavior. Currently, users get used to scrolling past the full-size stickies.
By collapsing already-browsed sticky posts, regular users should get used to not scrolling as far over time. This will interrupt the next ingrained scrolling behavior when stickies are updated, which should amount to a greater emphasis to the casual browser compared to the present.
An analogy for this is when a store puts “sale” tags on all items all the time, then the retail shopper loses interest in items that are actually marked down on a sale.
Comment by athleisures at 03/10/2022 at 21:44 UTC
-27 upvotes, 7 direct replies
Totally hear you on having people see the sticky posts. That’s why if there are any updates to the stickied posts the two-visits rule will reset before they can be collapsable.