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It prevents them from having to choose any subs (therefore showing favoritism)
The problem with that is it's a *terrible* experience for new users. They want to see a little favouritism, the best way to get people into your product and using it is to give them a quick overview of "here's some of the best stuff we have to offer to get you started"
The only people who don't want to see favouritism are the people who are way too wrapped up in reddit's internal drama.
Comment by [deleted] at 16/02/2017 at 00:56 UTC
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The desire to get rid of the defaults really picked up steam when the default mods shut down their subreddits in protest of Vicky's firing. It really showed reddit that a bunch of unpaid and unaccountable volunteers had a tremendous amount of power over their site. Showing favoritism like that is not doing enough to eliminate that issue. Having a questionnaire of interests leading you to auto-subscribe to preselected subreddits is not all that much different in practice than just having defaults as we do now, and I don't think it would do enough to reduce the "power mod" problem.