In reply to Stephen Cronin.

Some themes, like Make, have adopted this implementation of the "sticky" concept. Make however labels "sticky" posts as "Featured" by default in the screen output unless you change that in its settings. This points to the underlying confusion of having "sticky" named in the core but themes determine how it's implemented so there's not necessarily any consistentcy between the front and backend UIs. This tends to confuse anyone who doesn't know what's going on below those surfaces.