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I thought we solved this in the 1980's by usenet groups having prefixes like comp.*, rec.*, hum.* etc...
by martinflack 5y ago
I thought we solved this in the 1980's by usenet groups having prefixes like comp.*, rec.*, hum.* etc...
- donio 5y agoThat helped but not always. alt.games.gb which used to be a group for Galactic Bloodshed got overrun by Gameboy posts at some point. And there was a time period when gnu.emacs.help got some posts related to Apple's eMac line.
- dtech 5y agoOr see this post [1] about comp.windows.news, which is not about Microsoft Windows [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29298481 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29298481
- PawBer 5y agoReddit subreddit creation form actually recommends that subreddit names should end with a suffix that describes just that e.g. kafkasoftware. The lack of enforcement of this rule caused it to become forgotten.
- skinnymuch 5y agoI mr would be unfair if this only got enforced on newer subreddits. They already have to compete with other subreddits that got easy names early on. If all subreddits had to transition to this. Cool. Obviously that isn’t going to happen.