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View submission: BETA: Weekly Round-Up and Newsletter | 2020-04-03
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 hypermodernvoid at 04/04/2020 at 21:05 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?
No, which is why I said this:
Having said that, I agree it should be opt-in. Even if that means a lot less get this newsletter message, it really does upset some people if the reactions in this thread are anything to go by, and to be fair, I definitely hate most unsolicited emails of this kind.
I happen to be a big enough fan of this sub that I would opt-in to this, so when I saw this message I was like, "Oh cool - I love that sub, it's really interesting," but if I got one from like, /politics, which I have mixed feelings about, and is something I seek out only when I want to engage with its fairly mainstream, Millenial-oriented, center-left political bent (it kind of waxes and wanes as to how specifically leftist it will be, but it definitely has a bias I only sometimes agree with), I'd probably just be thinking, "I don't want to think about this shit right now." Same with the more obscure subs I'm subscribed to, like, r/aestheticrain (of course it's a real thing), because it's such a niche mood thing (actually maybe I would want that, haha).