Comment by Einhe on 03/04/2020 at 22:09 UTC

33 upvotes, 1 direct replies (showing 1)

View submission: BETA: Weekly Round-Up and Newsletter | 2020-04-03

Frankly, I found the message in my mailbox to be particularly upsetting.

All mailing lists (or digests, whatever) should be **strictly** opt-in. I personally consider spammy and invasive every website that automatically subscribes me to a mailing list upon registration -- no matter how easy it is to unsubscribe. Why should this be different for subreddits?

I have enjoyed reading r/AskHistorians for years, and I am glad it is usually held to a higher standard compared to the rest of Reddit. I am a lurker who rarely comments, but I really cannot stomach this. Is possible to provide feedback directly to the admins about this?

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Comment by Georgy_K_Zhukov at 04/04/2020 at 02:20 UTC

4 upvotes, 2 direct replies

Is possible to provide feedback directly to the admins about this?

We'll be doing an in-depth write-up that summarizes the the feedback we get, as well as sharing our survey data with them. And again, as we're the *only* subreddit testing this currently, they will be paying attention here too.