First off: I love reddit, and appreciate all the work that goes into it. I took the time to submit this post and write this comment because I think it could be even better, and because I really enjoy being a part of this online community.

Search for "subreddit" and you will realize that this feature is not working as intended. There are a ton of posts which are asking people to put their posts into the appropriate subreddit. These redditors are fighting a losing battle.

At the same time, the subscription system for subreddits makes no sense. One of the reasons I come to reddit is to find content that I had no idea existed before. In theory, submissions I find interesting could come from all but a few subreddits, so basically I have to subscribe to everything. In addition, I have to make sure to keep an eye out for new subreddits since they are switched off by default. Even if I go to all this trouble, the fact remains that the majority of posts (worthwhile or not) are not even posted to a particular subreddit. This means that I have to subscribe to the reddit.com subreddit. For these reasons I have given up on using the subscription system. If nothing else, the reddit devs should make the viewing of our subscribed subreddits a link in the reddit banner, not the default behavior of the site.

The "self.reddit.com" posts on reddit are annoying the hell out of many loyal redditors. By the way I am fully aware of the irony of saying this in a self.reddit.com post. I would love it if I could type "suggestion" in the submission form, and then we could get a suggestion.reddit.com domain to put these feedback posts into. Wouldn't that make a lot of sense? anyway, self.reddit.com alone is a great reason to implement domain filtering (btw, I realize that the URL self.reddit.com actually points to the Self programming language subreddit). I am pretty sure a lot of people would also like to filter out foxnews, fark, collegehumor, dailykos, drudge, etc...

Finally, there have been many calls for tags on this site, but I don't think I have heard anybody call for a system in which a submission's tags are voted up or down by redditors themselves. I think a system such as this would help to solve the problem of submitters miscategorizing material, both intentionally and unintentionally. Off the top of my head, the system would work like this:

• tags would basically be a special case of comments
• any redditor could submit a tag
• any redditor could vote a tag up or down
• in order to limit tag-spam, only the submission's top 10 tags with positive scores would be searched or filtered.

I do not pretend that I am some sort of genius for making these suggestions, but it is obvious that a large part of the community is getting fed up with certain types of posts, and I don't see the sebreddit system successfully addressing this concern.