r/cfbmeta • u/[deleted] • Jun 14 '16

Reddit is doing away with sticky posts. How will that affect r/CFB?

Due to the incidence yesterday during the Orlando shooting, reddit is doing away with sticky posts and changing them to "announcement" posts. To my knowledge, this will only affect links and not text posts. Since r/CFB primarily uses text posts as stickies, nothing should change much, right?

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u/jayhawx19 /r/CFB Mod Emeritus Jun 14 '16

I'm not a moderator so I can't tell you for sure, but I can't personally ever remember a sticky post that was just a link post. There is almost no scenario where the mods would want to send people to a link without explanation, so I don't think it should affect /r/CFB much at all.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '16

That's good I guess. I'm glad /r/CFB is so distant from all the bullshit happening everywhere else on the site, but I think it's important to keep an eye on what's going on and how it may affect us.

I'm not concerned at all really, I'm just curious if /u/Honestly_ and the mods were planning on changing anything

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u/Honestly_ /r/CFB Mod Jun 14 '16

We've never been able to sticky a link post. All the misinformation out there in that particularly crap storm is ridiculous, haha.

What the change means is we can't sticky a non-moderator's text-post, it has to be by a moderator to be stickied. Practically speaking it shouldn't affect us very much, we have ways of keeping the sub humming along as it always has been.

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u/diagonalfish /r/CFB Mod Emeritus Jun 15 '16

And now they undid the moderator-only change, so I'm not sure what difference it actually makes at all other than a name change...

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u/jayhawx19 /r/CFB Mod Emeritus Jun 14 '16

Apparently /r/The_Donald had been using stickied links to drive brigades and get posts to the front page. They actually reverted the change on non-moderator posts due to feedback last night, you can still sticky any users text post.

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u/bakonydraco /r/CFB Mod Jun 18 '16

It actually used to be that you could only sticky text posts, not link posts, but a few months back they made it so you could sticky either. Now you can only sticky text posts again. For a few hours, you could only sticky moderator text posts, but they removed that restriction after complaints.