We've been getting a lot of PMs about why we don't sticky shitposts anymore. The reason is that the button doesn't do that anymore. It's no longer something that the mods are able to do.
The usual followup question is why we're not stickying self posts every half hour. The reason for that is because we like the content that users create and the culture of this sub too much to do that.
If we did that, Trump news and Trump memes would no longer dominate the front page. Two line long jokes would. We're playing by ear how we change up stickies, but I don't want to stop being a shitpost sub and I don't think self-post nondirect-links look nice, though they aren't banned and they occasionally get stickied.