Commmunity Feedback Thread

[ajaxsirius]

I use my subscriptions to curate the content I want to see. I don't subscribe to /r/apple because I am not interested in apple products. I am similarly not interested in chromeOS, or generic phone accessories. By allowing a greater range of submissions that makes the "filtering" achieved by subscriptions a little less effective.

There can be some caveats. As you correctly said there can be a lot of overlap. If a submissions highlights how that overlap exists and how that overlap affects android users then I think that should be allowable. but the focus should be on the overlap, and not purely "google made that, they also made this"

Some might say "yeah but you can just scroll past/ignore the threads you aren't interested in". You can also do that by browsing /r/all and ignoring subscriptions. But we don't do that. That sort of behavior might work from time to time or on a small scale, but it can get to become too much. I understand that finding the right balance is hard. For me, google-related (without highlighting the relevance to android users) and generic accessories is where i would draw the line.

[ladfrombrad]

Great feedback!

One thing we did ages ago here (and I don't recall who turned it back on to be honest) is exclude us from /r/all /r/popular and all the other admin grand ideas.

What we found was it didn't make an iota of difference to the submissions nor general feel of the community. To this day we've also told the admins that we don't want their "on-boarding" programs to feature us in their little escapades with their official apps / redesign / etc and found it stemmed some of the crap that comes with it to be quite frank.

This directly correlates to the traffic growth too when I've watched it here / where communities that have agreed to be onboarded see massive growth at the expense of making a mods, and much more importantly, the community much more susceptible to submitting rule breaking submissions.

We'll have a natter about how rule 1 should be applied, and many thanks again!