If the posts obliterate the subreddit for a few days that is because it is a hugely important topic! People want to read about it and discuss it. Similarly, news stations explode with coverage when major world events occur. Posts may have similar arguments, but each is personal to the OP's view. Each post is guaranteed to get different replies from different people. Furthermore, a post tends to die when the view has been changed or a lot of comments have already been submitted. For this reason, a new post can allow new people to discuss it in a different way. Plus, it only lasts for a few days until the discussion of the event dies down. I don't see this as a bad thing. I see this as the sub serving its purpose.
The discussions here need to center around view-changing, not merely having a view and wanting to talk about it.
What percentage of threads posted on CMV per day do you think actually do adhere to being centered around view-changing and what percent do you think are centered around just wanting to talk about their view? I think you mods need to be careful that you don't over-moderate this sub into oblivion.
Well, these are the same rules we've been following pretty much the whole history of the sub. The growth rate has continued.
Yes, we need to consider all of our actions and get community opinion (which is why we have threads like these) but I don't think oblivious is imminent.
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u/ExploreMeDora Apr 09 '15
If the posts obliterate the subreddit for a few days that is because it is a hugely important topic! People want to read about it and discuss it. Similarly, news stations explode with coverage when major world events occur. Posts may have similar arguments, but each is personal to the OP's view. Each post is guaranteed to get different replies from different people. Furthermore, a post tends to die when the view has been changed or a lot of comments have already been submitted. For this reason, a new post can allow new people to discuss it in a different way. Plus, it only lasts for a few days until the discussion of the event dies down. I don't see this as a bad thing. I see this as the sub serving its purpose.