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Can they not do exactly that with their subscriptions? Unsubscribe from AdviceAnimals and subscribe to AskHistorians.

• agumonkey 10y ago
  There's a need for in-sub filtering too for non too specific subs. It's said to be possible with the Reddit Enhanced Suite thing ? but I never used it. I just echo what people say. Sure for very narrow subs, with adequate moderation manpower, the filtering can be done this way.
  • mejari 10y ago
    But you can accomplish the same thing by creating new more moderated subs. That's why we have /r/AskHistorians in addition to /r/history. If the sub isn't specific enough the solution shouldn't be to falsly and silently fragment the sub's users via user-side filtering, it's to explicitly split off a different community that behaves the way you want. In that way there is no "non too specific sub". If you participate in a subreddit, but filter out 70% of the content, in what way are you participating?
    • agumonkey 10y ago
      Sure, but things are wavey and blurry, you can't always foresee if a dedicated sub should be created, sometimes it's in waves.
      • mejari 10y ago
        True, but if your users are filtering out parts of the conversation you'll never reach a point where it's obvious there should be another community created, you'll just have multiple communities talking past each other.
• visarga 10y ago
  Sometimes there is a mix of fluff and insightful comments in the same subreddit, or even in the same comments thread.
  • mejari 10y ago
    Which is generally what most people like. But if you only want the insightful, in-depth comments you're more likely to get them in a subreddit dedicated to those types of comments then randomly in a more general subreddit. There are even subreddits dedicated to finding those few random insightful comments out in other more general subreddits, if that's really what you're looking for.