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I've had to banish a good 40+ subreddits off my feed manually using RES to just deal with the politics spam. And even then, browsing /r/popular is just awful.
by Night_Thastus 5y ago
I've had to banish a good 40+ subreddits off my feed manually using RES to just deal with the politics spam.
And even then, browsing /r/popular is just awful. Elimination games. People blatantly asking for personal information from teenagers. "Tell me your favorite X and we will judge you" Dumb NSFW 'questions'. Repost bots for content from years ago. Misinformative titles. "Unpopular opinion" threads.
It's a mountain of trash to wade through to get any decent content.
- ReaLNero 5y agoI always stay away from /r/popular. The subreddits that appear there like /r/PublicFreakout are selected for display so you can get angered, join the echo chamber in the comments and boost engagement metrics. Watching many of those short anger-inducting videos can make even a calm person change. The sort of stuff Reddit PMs have signed off on in the name of engagement is despicable.