There might be something workable if RSS aggregation functionality were built into reddit and subreddit moderators/owners could add approved feeds to their subr

There might be something workable if RSS aggregation functionality were built into reddit and subreddit moderators/owners could add approved feeds to their subreddits as a sort of "tickler" stream. So when you browse to new you would see something like "new | rising | unsubmitted". That could actually be useful for some of the low-volume, off-the-beaten-path specialist subreddits.