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I feel like the idea of "default" subreddits that everyone is subscribed already when they create an account is part of this problem. If they instead polled new
by benluke 12y ago
I feel like the idea of "default" subreddits that everyone is subscribed already when they create an account is part of this problem. If they instead polled new users on their interests/hobbies and generated a list of related subs based on your choices it would be a huge improvement, and could be used to gather data for advertisement.
- nemothekid 12y agoAccording to [1] Reddit sees 112M uniques/month but only has 2M registered users. A large fraction of reddit only sees and lurks on default subs, which reddit knows nothing about. [1]http://www.kunocreative.com/blog/bid/89711/Leveraging-Reddit-Stats-Marketing-and-User-Groupthink http://www.kunocreative.com/blog/bid/89711/Leveraging-Reddit...
- hrktb 12y agoAs every I think it depends on your point of view. When I joined reddit, half of the default subreddits where so bad that it pushed me to create an account for the sole purpose of removing them from my front page. Also, It feels like it's giving a place the people who are in for lulz, circle jerk and "bro" things. In the end everyone finds something (except advertisers apparently), and I think it's great.