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Favourite subs you would recommend?

by jamiegreen 9y ago

psychometry 9y ago
Ones about things you are interested in...
- alehul 9y ago
  I'm interested in politics, however /r/politics has awful comment quality and isn't a great sub to visit. I'd also like to hear about people's favorite subreddits in terms of comment quality, as I'd happily read a passionate and informative stance on something I'm usually not interested in compared to what I read on /r/politics. Edit: I meant to use it as an example -- I'm actually interested in any type of subreddit, I meant to explain! So thank you for the suggestions and I'll definitely check them out :)
  - Woofles 9y ago
    /r/neutralpolitics - It's not necessarily trying to be completely neutral, but it's trying to be factual and requires sources to be posted. /r/christianity usually has fairly high quality comments and conversations among Christians and non-Christians. /r/netsec has high quality posts and comments. /r/hockeyplayers has a very helpful community but probably not of interest if you're not a hockey player. /r/goodyearwelt has awesome reviews and information about high quality footwear /r/malefashionadvice is one of the better run larger subreddits that has writers from major publications that post and comment /r/askhistorians is very heavily moderated which means a lot of the most interesting questions remain unanswered for a long time, but the answers that are provided are very well thought out and sourced /r/asksocialscience is similar to /r/askhistorians just different content
  - abritinthebay 9y ago
    This is bizarre to me - the average comment quality on /r/politics is both more informed and higher level than about 90% of subreddits. Granted it's center-left most of the time (from a US perspective anyhow - as a European it is at best centrist) but that's more a function of a reaction to the current climate than anything else. So I guess I'd ask: "what kind of comments are you looking for?" because outside of the science communities you're not going to find better discussion threads.
    - abnry 9y ago
      /r/politics does have quality comments that also get upvoted. However, you have to dig through 90% of bad comments. For instance, you get one article about Trump's nickname for Sessions being Mr. McGhee. The comments decide this is bad. Then you read the comments on other stories and people are gleefully calling him a racist elf. That's just pointless and is a disincentive to visiting. But I keep returning to the subreddit because of how helpful it is in keeping up with the Russia stuff and because of the rarer insightful comments that give reasonable perspectives you will never hear a major publication speculate on.
      - abritinthebay 8y ago
        Well... poor quality posts tend to attract poor quality comments so I don't know if that's a great metric but sure, I get what you're saying.
  - hackinthebochs 9y ago
    You might want to check out /r/NeutralPolitics and /r/PoliticalDiscussion. They're both heavily moderated to keep comment quality high.
vermontdevil 9y ago
/r/spacex this is a fantastic group. heavily moderated /r/askhistorians /r/apple I am forgetting a few more.
- hobofan 9y ago
  /r/spacex is very Musk-fanboyish, which I guess is to be expected. The overall positive energy there these days is nice though, and the dedication that peaks in quasi-corporate-espionage is pretty cool.
- abritinthebay 9y ago
  the /r/apple comments are pretty awful and incredibly overrun by Samsung and Android fans however. The quality of discussion is generally pretty weak. Good link content however.
komali2 9y ago
/r/askhistorians is regarded as pretty much the "perfectly moderated" subreddit others strive for /r/science and /r/programming aren't bad After that you should just check out niche communities and see if they've been taken over by trolls. So far /r/motorcycles, /r/ultralight, /r/camping etc have been fine, as opposed to the many iterations of /r/onebag which generally suffer from power-grabbing moderation.
hasbroslasher 9y ago
r/iamverysmart - funny screenshots of the Dunning-Kruger effect and people generally thinking they're God's gift to intellectual life. r/holdmyredbull - extreme sports cousin of "hold my beer". Other fun ones in this circle include "hold my juice box" and "hold my fries". I tend to think of watching someone go skydiving without their own parachute as universally interesting, ymmv. r/AskReddit - Good survey of the current human experience, usually leave here with a feeling that your questions about the world and lives of other people aren't as unique as you though. Sometimes it's banal/off topic, though. r/ELI5 - "Explain like I'm 5" usually contains layman's questions about science, maths, history, and other sometimes unapproachable with great responses from people who know their stuff. Almost always leave here with something new to think/talk about. r/ProgrammerHumor - I'm a programmer, but even some of my non-programmer friends can enjoy the jokes over here.
irrational 9y ago
What are your interests? If you're into fitness, take a look at r/fitness. If you're into woodworking, take a look at r/woodworking r/hiking if you like hiking r/campinggear for gear r/baking if you like baking etc. Just do a search for your hobbies and see what subreddits show up.

Favourite subs you would recommend?

psychometry 9y ago

Ones about things you are interested in...

alehul 9y ago
I'm interested in politics, however /r/politics has awful comment quality and isn't a great sub to visit. I'd also like to hear about people's favorite subreddits in terms of comment quality, as I'd happily read a passionate and informative stance on something I'm usually not interested in compared to what I read on /r/politics. Edit: I meant to use it as an example -- I'm actually interested in any type of subreddit, I meant to explain! So thank you for the suggestions and I'll definitely check them out :)
- Woofles 9y ago
  /r/neutralpolitics - It's not necessarily trying to be completely neutral, but it's trying to be factual and requires sources to be posted. /r/christianity usually has fairly high quality comments and conversations among Christians and non-Christians. /r/netsec has high quality posts and comments. /r/hockeyplayers has a very helpful community but probably not of interest if you're not a hockey player. /r/goodyearwelt has awesome reviews and information about high quality footwear /r/malefashionadvice is one of the better run larger subreddits that has writers from major publications that post and comment /r/askhistorians is very heavily moderated which means a lot of the most interesting questions remain unanswered for a long time, but the answers that are provided are very well thought out and sourced /r/asksocialscience is similar to /r/askhistorians just different content
- abritinthebay 9y ago
  This is bizarre to me - the average comment quality on /r/politics is both more informed and higher level than about 90% of subreddits. Granted it's center-left most of the time (from a US perspective anyhow - as a European it is at best centrist) but that's more a function of a reaction to the current climate than anything else. So I guess I'd ask: "what kind of comments are you looking for?" because outside of the science communities you're not going to find better discussion threads.
  - abnry 9y ago
    /r/politics does have quality comments that also get upvoted. However, you have to dig through 90% of bad comments. For instance, you get one article about Trump's nickname for Sessions being Mr. McGhee. The comments decide this is bad. Then you read the comments on other stories and people are gleefully calling him a racist elf. That's just pointless and is a disincentive to visiting. But I keep returning to the subreddit because of how helpful it is in keeping up with the Russia stuff and because of the rarer insightful comments that give reasonable perspectives you will never hear a major publication speculate on.
    - abritinthebay 8y ago
      Well... poor quality posts tend to attract poor quality comments so I don't know if that's a great metric but sure, I get what you're saying.
- hackinthebochs 9y ago
  You might want to check out /r/NeutralPolitics and /r/PoliticalDiscussion. They're both heavily moderated to keep comment quality high.

vermontdevil 9y ago

/r/spacex this is a fantastic group. heavily moderated /r/askhistorians /r/apple I am forgetting a few more.

hobofan 9y ago
/r/spacex is very Musk-fanboyish, which I guess is to be expected. The overall positive energy there these days is nice though, and the dedication that peaks in quasi-corporate-espionage is pretty cool.
abritinthebay 9y ago
the /r/apple comments are pretty awful and incredibly overrun by Samsung and Android fans however. The quality of discussion is generally pretty weak. Good link content however.

komali2 9y ago

/r/askhistorians is regarded as pretty much the "perfectly moderated" subreddit others strive for /r/science and /r/programming aren't bad After that you should just check out niche communities and see if they've been taken over by trolls. So far /r/motorcycles, /r/ultralight, /r/camping etc have been fine, as opposed to the many iterations of /r/onebag which generally suffer from power-grabbing moderation.

hasbroslasher 9y ago

r/iamverysmart - funny screenshots of the Dunning-Kruger effect and people generally thinking they're God's gift to intellectual life. r/holdmyredbull - extreme sports cousin of "hold my beer". Other fun ones in this circle include "hold my juice box" and "hold my fries". I tend to think of watching someone go skydiving without their own parachute as universally interesting, ymmv. r/AskReddit - Good survey of the current human experience, usually leave here with a feeling that your questions about the world and lives of other people aren't as unique as you though. Sometimes it's banal/off topic, though. r/ELI5 - "Explain like I'm 5" usually contains layman's questions about science, maths, history, and other sometimes unapproachable with great responses from people who know their stuff. Almost always leave here with something new to think/talk about. r/ProgrammerHumor - I'm a programmer, but even some of my non-programmer friends can enjoy the jokes over here.

irrational 9y ago

What are your interests? If you're into fitness, take a look at r/fitness. If you're into woodworking, take a look at r/woodworking r/hiking if you like hiking r/campinggear for gear r/baking if you like baking etc. Just do a search for your hobbies and see what subreddits show up.