Every morning I hop on reddit and do the politics and news run so I'm aware of what's going on. After hearing about the Iran deal on NPR, I decided to see what our friends on /r/conservative were saying.

There was nothing, but I did notice this post about Bernie Sanders deodorant comment stickied to the top. At that point it was 25 minutes old and barely had any upvotes. Of course, my question was why is a news story a month and a half old, that was discussed quite a bit in the sub, being stickied now?

I realized yesterday I remember seeing a rather old story being stickied as well, just minutes after it being posted.

Stickying posts that have just been submitted seems to kill the whole "if you don't like memes, just post the content you want to see and if it's good, it'll get upvoted."

Putting aside the fact good content very rarely finds its way there, giving some goods content an artificial increase in value visibility, decided by the government moderators, seems like it might distort the market subreddit for the worse.

Kind of just another step in a long line of inconsistent application of values in that subreddit.

Damn liberals hate freedom of speech! We're going to ban everyone who doesn't speak the party line or holds a correct view of history!

Damn liberals with their persecution complex! Every time I get downvoted, it's those damn liberals oppressing me, not my shitty post being downvoted for being shitty!

Damn liberals always trying to force shit on everyone! Let's astroturf our subreddit so only pure American Freedom™ get seen.

Now is it silly and petty to criticize internet trolls on their inconsistent ideology? Yes. However, I just got home from work the welfare office, so I wanted to blow off some steam.