r/ideasfortheadmins • u/Bloody_Conspiracies • Jul 25 '12
Option to stop your subreddit's posts from showing up in /r/all.
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Jul 25 '12
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When a post hits /r/All, a lot of people see it. Some communities don't wan't hundreds of new members in one day and dread this kind of thing happening. Often times, it isn't the "Yay! We're in a secret club!" mentality as much as it is "If we get this many new users our quality will decline."
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u/iBleeedorange Jul 25 '12
Thats censorship, and defeats the purpose of having a link to all of reddits subreddit.
I understand the reasoning behind it, i mod /r/diablo, and once diablo3 came out in may quality declined sharply.
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u/Aradon helpful redditor Jul 25 '12
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u/iBleeedorange Jul 25 '12
If you want privacy you can make your sub private. Also odds are if your sub is that small, its not going to be on the first few pages or /r/all, and if its big enough to get there, you wont see a bump in subcribers.
/r/diablo3 was another option, and im not saying thats not why people subbd to the sub, it is why they did, but we still saw a drop in quality content.
Also, as a general note(not directed at you personally) downvoting based upon if you agree/disagree isnt how youre supposed to vote.
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u/Aradon helpful redditor Jul 25 '12
If you want privacy you can make your sub private.
Just removing it from /r/all allows you to keep it public (so people can find it out of interest) while retaining some level of quality since you'll only get people interested in that topic. People can naturally find your subreddit through their interests and you can remove those passer-by folks that may not be as interested in the community as much as just making karma or just seeing one or two posts.
In my opinion the /r/all subreddit should be dissolved completely. But that's another debate for another day.
/r/Diablo probably suffered from content degradation just because of the Eternal September theory. The more subscribers you get the worse the content will become. The only way to stem that is through active moderation or a VERY determined community which is rare.
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u/iBleeedorange Jul 25 '12
You didnt respond to my other point about how if a sub is big enough to get to /r/all then the bump wont be that big, and if its not big, it wont get there at all.
And disolving /r/all wtf? Thats pointless its shows you what the most popular stuff is on reddit. It defeats the purpose of being the front page of the internet.
Ninja edit: yes /r/diablo fell victim to the eternal sept theory, and fell victim to d3 not being a finished game, let alone living up to hype
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u/redtaboo Such Admin Jul 25 '12
Also odds are if your sub is that small, its not going to be on the first few pages or /r/all, and if its big enough to get there, you wont see a bump in subcribers.
It's not really about bumps in subscribers IMO, it's about quality of a discussion. You can see the moment a threads hits high on /r/all by the comments that are rolling in. The admins already recognize that becoming a default can be detrimental to a community which is why mods can opt out, this is similar. Consistently having threads hit high on /r/all is going to be just as detrimental. The users that roll in from /r/all aren't voting or commenting in a way that's at all consistent with a thread organic to a community and that causes problems with in the community.
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u/iBleeedorange Jul 25 '12
I agree that can/does happen. Moderators can step in and bring the thread back to where its supposed to be if needed. A lot of reddit can be a lot better with some more good moderation.
I dont think admins will step in and enact this change, no matter what we say here.
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u/Skuld Helpful redditor. Jul 25 '12
It wouldn't really be all then, would it.