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Why are we pretending like there isn't a horde of underemployed bored people willing to mod any of the subs? And/or subs that aren't taking your content will likely spawn specialized subs that do.
Here'sy theory -- people aren't actually that upset about whatever drama was going on. They're in it for the drama. People have wanted Pao to resign in humiliation since the Fattening, and people who care about this are caring just to care, just to... Create content about it. Feel a lil of that mob power.
I wouldn't be surprised if this month resulted in good traffic for the site.
Reddit's at a point where it would need a hell of lot more to go wrong in order to break it.
Comment by EzDi at 07/07/2015 at 08:38 UTC
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Those people don't make good mods. They powertrip and can't deal with people who have seen daylight lately. See /r/subredditcancer (be warned, there's plenty of anti-pao pitchforks there)
You're pretending getting drowned in a sea of garbage is a specialization issue. I'm saying 90 posts of blogspam vs my link to some actual journalism on the same news event as all 90. Then there's 1000 reposts or blogspams of stuff already posted. If your sub is high up enough, you can't count on your regular users paying attention enough to vote it right. You've got mods and the knights of new.
The go to a new subreddit thing only works in a few instances. First off, if I'm going to create a new sub, why would I do it here where half my subs turned to garbage because the mods left? Second, long before all this, I've been in a half-dozen+ subs that went into the toilet and only 2 managed to create new subs that worked. The rest I left to go to a dead sub. And that's not counting the defaults that I unsubscribe to as soon as they get promoted, because when 8M people get subscribed to a sub, it takes an excellent team to keep the sub from turning to garbage. Only 3 have succeeded, IMO.
The rest of your post I'm not reading because it has nothing to do with my earlier response to your question. I volunteered to provide a possible answer to your question, not give you somewhere to stick your pitchfork.