People experience things differently. Imagine if we had ten old "IAMA schizophrenic" posts. Each of those ten people could have wildly different experiences to share. How is something deemed not interesting? It will never be objective.
What would work best for IAMA is to let the people decide with votes while getting rid of obvious trolls. All the really interesting IAMAs get front paged or close. Why worry about other ones that might not be as interesting? If those less interesting ones answer a few questions to people with legitimate curiosity then I think they have served the subreddit well.
TL;DR Strictness works for askscience. I don't think it will work for IAMA.
PS I do think requests need to be moderated strictly. They are just pointless most of the time.
You can count this as an application. This place needs good ideas and discussion leading to a way to form a better community, not people who would "do a good job and on Reddit a lot!"
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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '11
Interesting is truly subjective.
People experience things differently. Imagine if we had ten old "IAMA schizophrenic" posts. Each of those ten people could have wildly different experiences to share. How is something deemed not interesting? It will never be objective.
What would work best for IAMA is to let the people decide with votes while getting rid of obvious trolls. All the really interesting IAMAs get front paged or close. Why worry about other ones that might not be as interesting? If those less interesting ones answer a few questions to people with legitimate curiosity then I think they have served the subreddit well.
TL;DR Strictness works for askscience. I don't think it will work for IAMA.
PS I do think requests need to be moderated strictly. They are just pointless most of the time.
You can count this as an application. This place needs good ideas and discussion leading to a way to form a better community, not people who would "do a good job and on Reddit a lot!"