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View submission: BETA: Weekly Round-Up and Newsletter | 2020-04-03
It's the idea of unsolicited messages that grinds my gears. I love the subreddit but I straight up think that these messages are a horrible idea. A pinned post with a weekly summary works well enough. The point is I shouldn't have to unsubscribe, I shouldn't be getting unsolicited messages in the first place.
Comment by Georgy_K_Zhukov at 04/04/2020 at 00:12 UTC
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I do appreciate your thoughts here, generally, but not to press the issue, but could you answer the question I asked? The implication, I guess, is that you did opt-out but posted anyways to share your thoughts, but I don't want to make assumptions. I'm genuinely interested!
In any case, as I have noted elsewhere, sticky threads are *not good* for communicating information. This is a fairly widespread issue that subreddits face. Stickying a thread does an *OK* job reaching the very frequent regulars, but not much else. We already have the Sunday Digest, but based on the comments we get *every day* from people wondering why "nothing is ever answered" it does an awful job reaching the users who only show up maybe once or twice a week, or usually just hit up the occasional question they see on their frontpage.
This may very well not prove to be the right approach. We have high hopes for it, but that doesn't guarantee success by any metric. This is the first successful test though (previous ones have crapped out after only a few hundred messages at most, this one seems to have sent out properly), so we'll have a lot of survey data to be sifting through over the next few days to figure how to tweak, change or, possibly, entirely abandon this. We shall see!
Comment by Gankom at 04/04/2020 at 00:17 UTC
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Just for the discussion, but we do have a pinned weekly summary. And as someone who puts a fair bit into it I know that unfortunately not many people know about it. The pinned messages generally don't show up in peoples feed. Which means that only people who know about it, know to go looking for it. Whenever I drop a link to it I'm *constantly* told that people had no idea it existed, and in fact I'm often told that people wish there was some kind of message or notification when it goes up.
This experiment in many ways is targeted at those people. We still have things to work out no doubt, but I'm just offering this to show that its not an idea that's come out of nowhere.