Comment by hypermodernvoid on 03/04/2020 at 20:13 UTC*

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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.***

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Comment by Jim_Nightshade at 03/04/2020 at 23:22 UTC

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My thoughts exactly. Definitely a happy surprise in my inbox today but some people might be subbed here but not interested enough to read it.

Comment by ill_change_it_later at 04/04/2020 at 13:50 UTC

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The problem is it’s never just one. It starts that way and then in a few weeks, bam, we are getting spam from all kinds of subs and stop even opening our messages.

I’m leaving because of this spam.

Comment by ChaiHai at 04/04/2020 at 18:36 UTC

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You may be fine with this subreddit, but would you be happy if ALL the subreddits you subscribed to did it?

I have 13+ pages of subreddits according to old reddit. If even a tenth of those start their own weekly newsletter, rip inbox.

Comment by bjr70 at 04/04/2020 at 15:06 UTC

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Agreed. I was also pleasantly surprised by this and I like it. That said, I'm a big fan of opt-in. Publicize the hell out of it but let subscribers decide.

Comment by Kujo17 at 04/04/2020 at 14:37 UTC

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I agree. I would love to have this option in some of the subs I Mod.i think it's great both as a subscriber and as a mod elsewhere. The reactiona are kind of surprising

Comment by Jellogirl at 04/04/2020 at 01:43 UTC

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Me too