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>> And this wasn't done out of hatred, it was done have consistent and continual abuse of those mod tools to antagonize the rest of the community.

>Oh really? Then why not apply it to every subreddit?

Because every subreddit wasn't abusing the system? I thought that was pretty explicit in what you quoted.

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They were abusing what system? Having a popular sub that people like to upvote posts on?

It was explained by the grandparent. They used the sticky to abuse the upvote system by getting everyone to upvote the stickied threads. It breaks the organic upvoting of content to the front page by forcing the thread to the front page of the sub, in order to get it more votes. The point of stickies is to provide announcements that everyone in the sub should see, which is not how they were using it.

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