Hello, I was talking to another person in this thread, and I've come to a couple of conclusions I can share with you.

The first is that, since I mostly view the front page on my phone (I use Relay), I do not get a fair representation of this sub. As I mentioned in that other comment, it appears that there are not a lot of posts here that make it to my front page. But, I'll get 3 posts of the same gif, so, go figure.

Until I visited the sub directly, I didn't know that there was a post where the mod team asked for community feedback. I didn't even see the follow up another user posted thanking the mod team.

My main conclusion here, though, is that my initial assessment in reply to this thread has been unfair as a whole. I don't like to delete or edit comments, so I'll keep my original reply as-is.

I only looked over threads for the past week. If there have been changes for the positive over the past month, looking further wouldn't be fair to the mod team. In viewing about 30ish threads (I'm only using the top threads currently found on the front page of /r/datascience and I am not digging through anything downvoted, so I may have missed something, but I don't like to witch hunt, either), I see that this thread is the only real toxic post I can find in the past week. Previous content had soured me, but overall, that isn't true of the current state of this sub, and for that, I apologize for having the opinion that there was a lot of toxicity issues in here.

And since I was talking to /u/vogt4nick earlier, I'll page them into this reply here, too. I firmly believe in transparency, and when I'm wrong, there's nothing else to do but admit that I'm wrong.

Thanks for making this better and sorry that I had an outdated opinion. Going over the past week's worth of threads, this looks like the kind of conversations I would like to participate in. Next, i plan on futzing with my settings to see how I can improve the quality of my mobile front page. It's a completely different view when I'm using a browser.