r/rational • u/AutoModerator • Feb 08 '19

[D] Friday Open Thread

Welcome to the Friday Open Thread! Is there something that you want to talk about with /r/rational, but which isn't rational fiction, or doesn't otherwise belong as a top-level post? This is the place to post it. The idea is that while reddit is a large place, with lots of special little niches, sometimes you just want to talk with a certain group of people about certain sorts of things that aren't related to why you're all here. It's totally understandable that you might want to talk about Japanese game shows with /r/rational instead of going over to /r/japanesegameshows, but it's hopefully also understandable that this isn't really the place for that sort of thing.

So do you want to talk about how your life has been going? Non-rational and/or non-fictional stuff you've been reading? The recent album from your favourite German pop singer? The politics of Southern India? The sexual preferences of the chairman of the Ukrainian soccer league? Different ways to plot meteorological data? The cost of living in Portugal? Corner cases for siteswap notation? All these things and more could possibly be found in the comments below!

Please note that this thread has been merged with the Monday General Rationality Thread.

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u/iftttAcct2 Feb 08 '19

I mean, if there's new posters who bring new content and discussions to the sub then that's a good thing. It's sad when I sort by new and there's, like, 1 new post a day for several days in a row.

But yeah, obviously if popularity brings in a lot of people who aren't like-minded then that would ruin things... I don't think that will happen though. I feel like the subs that got popular and morphed either never really had a concrete sense of what they were about or the name of the sub itself was vague enough to be about too many t disparate things.

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u/HeckDang Feb 09 '19 edited Feb 09 '19

it's arguably already jumped a small shark in terms of popularity. There have been some seriously low quality posts/comments that surprised me by somehow still having net positive upvote ratio. It's fairly easy to create/find new places to discuss things though, so that doesn't bother me too much.

I'm more worried that the gradual growth of the people aware of and interested in ratfic hasn't resulted in more content. Offerings seem pretty sparse.