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View submission: BETA: Weekly Round-Up and Newsletter | 2020-04-03
The issue is that those who are vehement usually get to dominate the discourse, and their opinions often get to crowd out the more moderate who aren't interested in engaging in an argument.
This is basically true. I don't want to say their concerns are invalid, but we have sent this to literally thousands of users. And a small number who didn't like it have expressed that fact. This is specifically why we have the survey, because it pulls in a far higher number of responses to give us a better over all view.
We *fully* expect that the people who hate this *the absolute most* are going to be the most inclined to express that, vocally, and aren't prepared to take the feedback *solely* in this thread as representative of "the majority of the users". Certainly as one data point we'll be drawing on in our evaluations, but not the only one.
After we have run this test, we *probably* won't do it again for a few weeks at least, even if the feedback is overwhelmingly positive, I would add, as we'll definitely want to spend time with the reddit engineers about what backend tweaks can be done to better accommodate the negative feedback (we'll probably post this feature still, just not do the blast).
There's nothing here!