383 upvotes, 6 direct replies (showing 6)
View submission: BETA: Weekly Round-Up and Newsletter | 2020-04-03
This needs to be opt-in rather than opt out.
Comment by hypermodernvoid at 03/04/2020 at 20:13 UTC*
124 upvotes, 6 direct replies
I guess I'm in the minority that was pleasantly surprised by this idea. I don't mind, once a week, to see popular threads and so on from this sub: they really put effort into maintaining high-quality replies while weeding out speculative/stupid/trolling ones, and I love reading about history so much I do so in my spare time pretty frequently about all sorts of topics. I'm also not getting messages 24/7 on Reddit, so it's no biggie to me.
The fact that people are upset enough to comment that they're unsubscribing from such a great sub in reaction makes me sad, especially since I think the mods intention was good and this was done out of their enthusiasm for the content, so in my humble opinion, I say *keep the feature, it's cool, this sub is cool,* ***but make it opt-in instead.***
Comment by TheDovahofSkyrim at 03/04/2020 at 20:08 UTC
57 upvotes, 3 direct replies
Meh, if only this subreddit did it, for me it would be perfect. I’m just hoping other subs don’t get the same idea.
The reason why I feel this will work for this subreddit is because some of the time I stumble upon a question that doesn’t have great responses, and this is a great way to remember to go back and look at threads once they’ve gotten good responses.
Comment by Fleckeri at 04/04/2020 at 06:19 UTC
11 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Agreed. While I enjoy reading this subreddit more than most, I’d prefer this feature to be strictly opt-in.
Part of the appeal of Reddit is that you can customize it and engage with it on your own terms when and where you want to. If I’m in the mood for an engaging deep dive on an interesting historical question one free afternoon, I can just come here on a whim and sort by best, or top of this week.
Once this (and presumably several other subreddits) gain this weekly digest ability, Reddit will start to clog your notifications with “top stories” and “content we think you’ll like” like those other apps that constantly try to foist their services onto you to get their engagement numbers up.
Comment by z500 at 03/04/2020 at 20:00 UTC
11 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I didn't even know about this feature, I thought I just got banned!
Comment by rothwick at 04/04/2020 at 15:49 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Yeah holy shit if all the subs started doing this shit... fuck. This sucks. How do I opt out of ANY more newsletetrs. Do I have to manually unsubscribe from every sub?
Comment by jofwu at 03/04/2020 at 21:51 UTC
-8 upvotes, 2 direct replies
It would be pretty pointless and ineffective if that were the case I'm afraid.
Or well, I guess that entirely depends on how it is used. I'll probably opt out of this unless they change the frequency. Weekly is too much for me.
I'm just imagining, as a moderator of several subreddits, that this would be REALLY useful if we have any important announcements to make. I moderate a subreddit for a book series with a new book releasing later this year. I would LOVE to inform all subscribers about rules and release plans. We will make a sticky post as usual, but people are TERRIBLE at reading those.
I would be careful not to abuse it though. Weekly is too much...