224 upvotes, 9 direct replies (showing 9)
View submission: Introducing r/popular
... the “defaults” have received a disproportionate amount of traffic, and made it difficult for new users to see the rest of Reddit. We, therefore, are trying to make the Reddit experience more inclusive by launching r/popular, which, like r/all, opens the door to allowing more communities to climb to the front page.
As I scroll down /r/popular all I see are posts from subreddits with 100,000+ subscribers. How exactly does this allow for smaller subreddits to gain more traction?
Comment by bmlbytes at 15/02/2017 at 23:11 UTC
15 upvotes, 2 direct replies
It sounds like to me that it is just a filtered /r/all. They couldn't make the regular /r/all the logged out front page, because it has a lot of NSFW and controversial posts. This new change allows other subreddits than the 50 default ones to make the front page. If you look at /r/all, you will see that most of them are from huge subreddits, but every once in a while, an obscure subreddit will hit the top of /r/all. I assume this is the same with /r/popular
Comment by dhibbit at 15/02/2017 at 22:56 UTC
76 upvotes, 0 direct replies
This doesn't replace /r/all it just replaces the default view of reddit (logged out).
So before today if you were a small sub and you wanted logged out users to see your sub without being in /r/all you had to 1) gain popularity and 2) be "enfranchised" by the admins, i.e. made into a default sub.
Now that 2nd part doesn't need to happen.
But yes you do still have to be somewhat popular to make it to /r/popular. Shocking, I know.
Comment by TheEnemyOfMyAnenome at 15/02/2017 at 23:02 UTC
15 upvotes, 1 direct replies
It's not for smaller subreddits, per se, but for medium-to-large ones. I think the idea is to close the gap between the old curated defaults and the next largest in size.
Comment by FamousLegend13 at 15/02/2017 at 23:12 UTC
9 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I think there should be a sub that normalizes upvotes with the number of users subscribed to the subreddit, such that smaller subs have just as much of an opportunity to gain traction as larger subs.
Comment by crackinthedam at 16/02/2017 at 03:46 UTC
6 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It doesn't. It is literally just a way to get The_Donald off the front page without saying so, which is why they're doing this with no transparency and constantly shifting subjective criteria each time someone asks why the sub they mod isn't in r/popular.
Comment by reltd at 16/02/2017 at 00:11 UTC
14 upvotes, 3 direct replies
Who cares, this is about making nobody logging on to Reddit see /r/the_donald.
Comment by ReallyForeverAlone at 15/02/2017 at 20:53 UTC
9 upvotes, 2 direct replies
It doesn't; the purpose is to filter out *one* sub from readers that don't actively search for it. You know exactly which one I'm talking about.
Comment by [deleted] at 16/02/2017 at 02:35 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It's all bullshit. They don't know what they're doing.
Comment by jefeperro at 15/02/2017 at 20:55 UTC
-43 upvotes, 5 direct replies
It doesn't, it just censors content
most trump supporters are pro free speech and expression and against censorship. So we do not filter out subs that hold opposing viewpoints.
We want to facilitate and participate in discourse with others that hold different beliefs.
Unlike those who oppose us.
Since we do not actively filter out subs they appear on popular.
In my opinion, Reddit is encouraging and enabling users to censor out certain content.