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Why are you actively making it harder to moderate?
Comment by OPINION_IS_UNPOPULAR at 04/10/2022 at 12:49 UTC
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Because, as they said, their experiment found that collapsing stickies leads to higher engagement.
FWIW we found the same effect by minimizing the amount of text on our stickied daily threads about a year ago.
Let's be real, many subreddit stickies are lazy rehashes of the rules. No one wants to read that, it's just wasting the most valuable real estate on the reader's screen.