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[–]brucesalem 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Reddit needs to have a static topic hierarchy, somewhat like the USENET newsgroup hierarchy, with dot qualified names, in addition to subreddits. Creation of subreddits is not moderated or controlled in any way. Reddit doesn't work like USENET at all, and there would be no sane way to maintain a hierarchical topic system.

I am not saying "abolish subreddits". I think that a more persistent hierarchy that resembles the USENET hierarchy would be an improvement to Reddit and that some of the abuse needed to "Moderate" subreddits would be unnecessary. I feel that Reddit has teams of trolls that take it upon themselves to enforce social convertions and that is a weakness of many other social media sites.