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I've been a heavy reddit user for 8 years and I did not know about this until I read about it in the New York Times. It's really a small subset of the reddits t

I've been a heavy reddit user for 8 years and I did not know about this until I read about it in the New York Times. It's really a small subset of the reddits that were touched by the entire ordeal.

city41 11y ago
It completely and totally dominated /r/all for days, even weeks. /r/all is an aggregate of the most popular posts for the entire site, so I disagree only a small subset were affected. Maybe in number of subreddits, but the subreddits that were affected are absolutely gigantic.
- danielweber 11y ago
  Most people are completely unaware of /r/all
  - colinbartlett 11y ago
    Certainly not unaware just definitely not interested.
  - danieldk 11y ago
    Isn't that what you get when going to the site while not being logged in? (I echo the comments that say that Reddit has great subreddits like /r/Haskell and it's easy to mis all of this when you are just subscribed to a few subreddits.)
    - tomjen3 11y ago
      No, you get a restricted set of /all with posts from some subreddits: https://www.reddit.com/r/defaults/comments/2ycn0x/list_of_default_subreddits_march_8_2015/ https://www.reddit.com/r/defaults/comments/2ycn0x/list_of_de... is the current list.
  - Nemcue 11y ago
    You say this with certainty? Do you know this to be true? Because I seriously doubt it.
- geofft 11y ago
  I'm not subscribed to any of the default subreddits; I imagine very many long-time users are the same way. I never read /r/all precisely because it's an aggregate of posts on subreddits I don't care about. In particular, I'm subscribed to no general-purpose or wide-purpose subreddits. A few city/geographic subreddits mentioned it in passing, but, like, /r/programming or /r/nycbike or /r/radicalchristianity are going to treat any post about it as off-topic. You can't just post an advice animal about it, or request IAmAs from everyone involved, or say that today you learned whatever-it-may-be about Ellen Pao, or what have you. Nor can you do this about any other topic, which is why I bother to read these subreddits.
  - wvenable 11y ago
    I browse /r/all occasionally to get out of the bubble of the subs I'm subscribed to. And sometimes there is a popular post in an obscure subreddit that I've never heard of before and get that gets me to subscribe.
    - bluecalm 11y ago
      They could add something like sub-reddit tags: NSFW, offensive, video games, sports, technical etc. Then on r/all NSW/offensive are disabled by default (the same way NSFW is rigth now - you need to change your account settings). Problem solved, FPH will never make it to people who don't want to see offensive staff.
      - geofft 11y ago
        I think you're misunderstanding what the commenters in this subthread are saying. It's not simply that I don't want to see FPH. I also don't want to see advice animals, documentaries, creepypasta, or jokes. I have nothing against these as forms of content, it's just not what I visit Reddit for. And even among technology, I have no interest in seeing things about Ruby or Go. Again, it's not that I dislike the languages, it's that they're not professionally relevant to me at the moment so it's not what I visit Reddit for. So what we need is some way for subreddits to be tagged with their own content: /r/rust about Rust, /r/python about Python, /r/sandersforpresident about Bernie, etc., and some /r/all equivalent that just matches what I'm interested in -- which is exactly what https://reddit.com https://reddit.com is for me, right now. I don't need /r/all to be fixed; I have no interest in even seeing "all technology" or "all religion" or "all presidential candidates". FPH being or not being on /r/all is irrelevant.

I've been a heavy reddit user for 8 years and I did not know about this until I read about it in the New York Times. It's really a small subset of the reddits that were touched by the entire ordeal.

city41 11y ago

It completely and totally dominated /r/all for days, even weeks. /r/all is an aggregate of the most popular posts for the entire site, so I disagree only a small subset were affected. Maybe in number of subreddits, but the subreddits that were affected are absolutely gigantic.

danielweber 11y ago
Most people are completely unaware of /r/all
- colinbartlett 11y ago
  Certainly not unaware just definitely not interested.
- danieldk 11y ago
  Isn't that what you get when going to the site while not being logged in? (I echo the comments that say that Reddit has great subreddits like /r/Haskell and it's easy to mis all of this when you are just subscribed to a few subreddits.)
  - tomjen3 11y ago
    No, you get a restricted set of /all with posts from some subreddits: https://www.reddit.com/r/defaults/comments/2ycn0x/list_of_default_subreddits_march_8_2015/ https://www.reddit.com/r/defaults/comments/2ycn0x/list_of_de... is the current list.
- Nemcue 11y ago
  You say this with certainty? Do you know this to be true? Because I seriously doubt it.
geofft 11y ago
I'm not subscribed to any of the default subreddits; I imagine very many long-time users are the same way. I never read /r/all precisely because it's an aggregate of posts on subreddits I don't care about. In particular, I'm subscribed to no general-purpose or wide-purpose subreddits. A few city/geographic subreddits mentioned it in passing, but, like, /r/programming or /r/nycbike or /r/radicalchristianity are going to treat any post about it as off-topic. You can't just post an advice animal about it, or request IAmAs from everyone involved, or say that today you learned whatever-it-may-be about Ellen Pao, or what have you. Nor can you do this about any other topic, which is why I bother to read these subreddits.
- wvenable 11y ago
  I browse /r/all occasionally to get out of the bubble of the subs I'm subscribed to. And sometimes there is a popular post in an obscure subreddit that I've never heard of before and get that gets me to subscribe.
  - bluecalm 11y ago
    They could add something like sub-reddit tags: NSFW, offensive, video games, sports, technical etc. Then on r/all NSW/offensive are disabled by default (the same way NSFW is rigth now - you need to change your account settings). Problem solved, FPH will never make it to people who don't want to see offensive staff.
    - geofft 11y ago
      I think you're misunderstanding what the commenters in this subthread are saying. It's not simply that I don't want to see FPH. I also don't want to see advice animals, documentaries, creepypasta, or jokes. I have nothing against these as forms of content, it's just not what I visit Reddit for. And even among technology, I have no interest in seeing things about Ruby or Go. Again, it's not that I dislike the languages, it's that they're not professionally relevant to me at the moment so it's not what I visit Reddit for. So what we need is some way for subreddits to be tagged with their own content: /r/rust about Rust, /r/python about Python, /r/sandersforpresident about Bernie, etc., and some /r/all equivalent that just matches what I'm interested in -- which is exactly what https://reddit.com https://reddit.com is for me, right now. I don't need /r/all to be fixed; I have no interest in even seeing "all technology" or "all religion" or "all presidential candidates". FPH being or not being on /r/all is irrelevant.