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What's wrong with Reddit is that politics.vitriol.hate.anger has a very large presence in the default subreddits.

• jerf 11y ago
  I strongly believe causality runs the other way... becoming a default reddit puts you into an Eternal September that no community could possibly survive. But in the end, the result is the same.
  • InclinedPlane 11y ago
    AskScience is a default sub, I think, and they've survived alright. Interestingly, AskHistorians asked to not be a default sub-reddit for precisely the reasons you've given.
    • noir_lord 11y ago
      They have something like 500 moderators though so there is that.
      • thelamest 11y ago
        They used to ruthlessly remove everything without an academic source, however interesting - these days I feel more and more fluff is getting through.
  • azernik 11y ago
    I think you are very correct. Maybe one of the nice things about UseNet was that you could only be signed up for a forum that you explicitly looked for? That at least forces the trolls to go out of their way to interfere with general-interest sections, not just go after them out of laziness.
• hansolo669 11y ago
  What's wrong with Reddit is the "default subreddit" concept and the difficulty of subreddit discovery. Building in some form of interest based subreddit discovery would go a long way to de-emphasising defaults and (eventually) mitigate much of the vitriol. There is also something to be said for educating users on the effects of anonymity.