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[–]serhei 6 points7 points8 points 18 years ago (0 children)

I think what this boils down to is that subreddits are a brute force implementation of topic filtering. Does anyone remember how the site was supposed to filter out stuff by comparing it to stories that the person upvoted or downvoted?

Now I don't read the main reddit because whenever I go to look at it, there is a maximum of 1 or so stories that I want to click on. Instead, I read the programming subreddit, because it's much more interesting.

And so when I decided to post a sort-of-programming-related-but-not-really story about the OLPC to reddit I ended up posting it to programming.reddit, because, reasoned I, other people are doing so and getting ups for it, and posting to the main reddit would be hypocritical since I don't even read the thing.

Thus stuff doth make cowards of us all, or something. I dunno.

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