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So hang on a bloody second, are you telling me if we sticky an AMA and a user navigates away twice they won't be able to see it anymore?
We use stickied megathreads to stop common topics from overrunning the front page. Now, our rules will be directed users to post in threads that you have hidden from them. That's a terrible user experience.
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More engagement is not the same as good engagement. This is a classic example of how the interests of mods don't align with the admins'. I don't want more engagement at any cost. I want engagement with users who understand the rules and the culture of the community they're joining.
People already complain that it's difficult to post on reddit because you guys have streamlined the rules into invisibility. Consequently, their first interaction with the rules is being told off by a terse moderator or a strict automod setup. I don't think that's a more streamlined experience than having to read some rules before posting.
I really think this attitude from the admins, that moderators don't know what's best for their communities and that all engagement is good engagement, is a false economy, as it forces moderators to take an almost oppositional attitude with the users and actually hurts overall engagement in the long run.
There's nothing here!