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View submission: Introducing r/popular
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.
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