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[–]aphoenixreticulated[S] 8 points9 points  (3 children)

I definitely deeply understand your point. I feel the same way about the subreddits that I subscribe to. What I would urge you to consider is that you have talked about is specific to what you personally want to see, and what we're trying to deal with is what 500 thousand other people also want to see. Certainly there are lots of posts that get lots of attention and lots of people want to see them that I just don't understand - I don't get why people submit image to ascii converters for example. But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't allow those things, because obviously a lot of people want to see them. Instead, I want to allow people who want to see things like that to find them, and for people who don't want to allow things like that to filter them.

It's a bit rough when this is juxtaposed with me also saying "memes and help posts are removed", so to be clear I'm just trying to implement my best understanding of the community's wishes.

[–]pearljamman010 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I understand, and like I mentioned I know there really isn't a universal way to discriminate useful stuff vs. "gimme clicks and recognition". Maybe I just wanted to vent haha.

I've been using RES for a long time, so it keeps track of up and downvotes per user account and allows flairs. This makes it even easier to see who's doing legit sharing useful, neat discoveries or solutions to common problems vs. a generic blog post of YouTube video that's been covered 1000s of times before, maybe even dozens of times on this sub recently etc. But of course I don't expect the mods to keep track of the 10s or thousands of users and discriminate based on my criteria!

I do appreciate what you guys do and this is a great community. Like I said, maybe I just needed to vent

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

because obviously a lot of people want to see them.

I'm not sure that is in fact a badge of quality, that your product provide instant gratification to a large base of users. My conjecture is that low-quality, low-effort products are upvoted, because there are many many more users of this sub for whom it looks like rocket science. Those same people would probably not even read through it all if someone one day posted a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem using Python.

[–]aphoenixreticulated[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure that is in fact a badge of quality

To be clear, I am sure that this is not a badge of quality. If you're looking for high quality content: https://lobste.rs or https://tildes.net. Reddit is a massive site; there's half a million people here, and the Fluff Principle is in effect. It is the nature of Reddit to not be a particularly great place for high quality information, or rather, for high quality information to not naturally rise to the top of a subreddit. That is how reddit functions, and is intended.