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View submission: BETA: Weekly Round-Up and Newsletter | 2020-04-03
It should very much so be opt-in. I don’t like the idea that a subreddit knows my account exists simply because I’m subbed. It also opens up questions of privacy. Not that this applies to me, but if someone has their personal information available on their profile and they are subbed to an NSFW sub, a moderator could access the subscriber list and would have easy blackmail. It just feels like an invasion of privacy to me.
Comment by Georgy_K_Zhukov at 03/04/2020 at 18:37 UTC
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So I would note we have no idea who you are, unless you reply here to note you got it!
The only thing on our end is a little button which they decided to title "Share With Members". We can compose a brief message (350 characters IIRC?) to accompany it. Hit send and then... off into the ether it goes. I literally don't even know if it is working without checking with the Admin who actually has access to the logs (and the past few weeks it did, in fact, stall out before even sending).
Insofar as there are privacy issues in that regards, this doesn't in any way give us an actual list of subscribers.
I'd also note that this is the second round of testing for this feature. The first round was done with a small number of subreddits with less than... 20k(?) subscribers I think? We are the only subreddit in this second round to test with a larger subscriber base (bit over a million). I have no sense of what the future even holds for the feature, and our feedback, if it isn't positive, may end up killing it for all I know, since I would think that a content *creation* sub like this is the best candidate, and if it don't work here it won't work anywhere, but in any case, I would sincerely hope that if it were rolled out more extensively, it wouldn't work for certain subs anyways. We already expect not everyone to like this... but I think if porn subs starting doing weekly newsletters... well, probably not a good idea.