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>Worse, once a sub is made a default, its quantity goes up but its quality goes down. This seems to be almost universally true for any online community. As a u

>Worse, once a sub is made a default, its quantity goes up but its quality goes down. This seems to be almost universally true for any online community. As a userbase widens, content quality and even social dynamics become diluted to some extent towards a general population baseline. As a mod of /r/changemyview (153k subscribers), we have discussed opting out of becoming a default sub if we were approached by the reddit admins. We already continuously struggle to maintain sub quality, given 50k subscriber growth in the last 9 months, though we have seen some success with our small set of very well-defined, strict, and heavily enforced rules.

golemotron 12y ago
There should be a reddit of subreddits - a way to vote them up and down in order to determine the defaults.
- majani 12y ago
  the same effect can be had by making trending subs the defaults. Part of me thinks this could be the solution, but another part of me thinks there's no way they've gone nine years without having tried that already...
  - sltkr 12y ago
    I think the problem with that is that subs like /r/thefappening popping up by default is kind of a PR nightmare. From the perspective of attracting new users it's great, though.
arfliw 12y ago
CMV: I just checked out your sub and subscribed, it looks interesting.
TarpitCarnivore 12y ago
>>Worse, once a sub is made a default, its quantity goes up but its quality goes down. This seems to be almost universally true for any online community. As a userbase widens, content quality and even social dynamics become diluted to some extent towards a general population baseline. Yes and no. I started spending time over on NeoGAF which has 141K members. Not nearly the size of some larger subs, but pretty good. The quality in content isn't massively scholarly, but it's far less juvenile than Reddit can be. This is largely due to the heavy moderation the forum uses. Which is likely the major flaw in Reddit. It can be a place for "good content" while also trying to be a more open form of discussion.

golemotron 12y ago

There should be a reddit of subreddits - a way to vote them up and down in order to determine the defaults.

majani 12y ago
the same effect can be had by making trending subs the defaults. Part of me thinks this could be the solution, but another part of me thinks there's no way they've gone nine years without having tried that already...
- sltkr 12y ago
  I think the problem with that is that subs like /r/thefappening popping up by default is kind of a PR nightmare. From the perspective of attracting new users it's great, though.

arfliw 12y ago

CMV: I just checked out your sub and subscribed, it looks interesting.

TarpitCarnivore 12y ago

>>Worse, once a sub is made a default, its quantity goes up but its quality goes down. This seems to be almost universally true for any online community. As a userbase widens, content quality and even social dynamics become diluted to some extent towards a general population baseline. Yes and no. I started spending time over on NeoGAF which has 141K members. Not nearly the size of some larger subs, but pretty good. The quality in content isn't massively scholarly, but it's far less juvenile than Reddit can be. This is largely due to the heavy moderation the forum uses. Which is likely the major flaw in Reddit. It can be a place for "good content" while also trying to be a more open form of discussion.