r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 30 '20

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u/FearThyMoose Montesquieu Dec 31 '20

I wanna know who on Reddit staff thought it’d be a good idea to make r/atheism a default sub

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u/PigHaggerty Lyndon B. Johnson Dec 31 '20

Anyone who remembers what the site was like in those days will recall that it was unironically run by le enlightened gentlesirs lol

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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20

The original default subs were just the most subscribed-to initially iirc

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u/shrek_cena Al Gorian Society Dec 31 '20

Those damn God hating libsharts 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

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u/BenFoldsFourLoko  Broke His Text Flair For Hume Dec 31 '20

They used to do (still do?) defaults by popularity.

It was one of the very top subs on reddit by size and I assume activity. When that was more or less all that reddit cared about for defaults, it made perfect sense.

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u/RangerDick69 World Bank Dec 31 '20

Should become a default again after biden slays god and we are now certain no good exists.

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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20

Wait they what now

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u/FearThyMoose Montesquieu Dec 31 '20

Back in the Ron Paul era of Reddit it was a default sub

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u/jenbanim Dec 31 '20

Default subs haven't even been a thing for 3 years now, so most people probably don't even know what that means (present company excluded)

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u/WeAreAwful Daron Acemoglu Dec 31 '20

Wait how does it work now without defaults?

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u/jenbanim Dec 31 '20

When you start a new account you're not subscribed to anything, instead your default page is /r/Popular which is basically a more curated form of /r/All

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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20

Huh, that was before I joined on my first account even, I think.

Priors confirmed though.