Comment by Malphos101 on 10/09/2021 at 19:56 UTC

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View submission: Opt out of followers, front-end improvements to Reddit search, and an experiment to inspire new communities

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Whats the name of the metric you guys are tracking for followers that the management demands you opt-in everyone by default?

We know its metric chasing and not user benefit you are doing, can we just get some honesty on what that metric is called?

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Comment by BurritoJusticeLeague at 10/09/2021 at 20:55 UTC

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Someone else asked this too, so I'll share what I answered above... Features are often opt-in to help discoverability and adoption. Typically we see one out of seven users opt out of a feature. This means around 85% of people will use and benefit from the feature under opt-in by default, vs. 2% under opt-out by default. That's a 42x increase in people using a feature at the cost of 15% of people having to take action to opt out.