Comment by FaviFake on 04/10/2022 at 15:37 UTC

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Because, as they said, their experiment found that collapsing stickies leads to higher engagement.

I wanted to explain to you why this is bad for us, but u/delta_baryon did such a great job on their comment[1] that I'm just going to paste it here:

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/xuvkmy/comment/iqy6cm2/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

• "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."*

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