Comment by BurritoJusticeLeague on 10/09/2021 at 20:55 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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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.

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Comment by Malphos101 at 10/09/2021 at 21:23 UTC

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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.

Wow, its almost like people don't want to use that kind of feature and metric chasing demands you change it to opt-in so that management can show shareholders the "LOOK HOW MUCH ENGAGEMENT WE HAD IN FISCAL QUARTER X! GIMME BONUS!" graphic board.

Comment by [deleted] at 10/09/2021 at 21:15 UTC*

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would you guys be able have the block feature fully block someone from seeing your account, posts and comments? when i block someone i’m blocking them so they can’t see my username or anything but without that it’s kinda worthless but all it does is prevent them from seeing posts you post to your own account

Comment by bluesam3 at 11/09/2021 at 13:02 UTC

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This means around 85% of people will use and benefit from the feature under opt-in by default

No it doesn't. It means that 85% of people won't bother to turn it off.

Comment by bluesatin at 10/09/2021 at 21:40 UTC

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Uh, did you mean to copy+paste that response to another comment?

They asked a fairly straightforward question, and your copy+paste response doesn't answer it.

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

Comment by [deleted] at 11/09/2021 at 09:40 UTC

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You do know it doesn't count as engagement increasing if you guys are the ones doing it for us. You're just trying to number pad for bonuses and it's pathetic to see.

Comment by [deleted] at 16/09/2021 at 03:43 UTC

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for the love of god, u/BurritoJusticeLeague, this rape threat has been up for days and nothing is being done about it… REMOVE IT https://www.reddit.com/r/u_Househunter82/comments/phazhg/i_am_filled_with_rage_at_the_texas_abortion_bill/hbh7axd

Comment by [deleted] at 10/09/2021 at 22:16 UTC

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also this comment needs to be removed. it’s literally threatening rape to women: https://www.reddit.com/user/Househunter82/comments/phazhg/i_am_filled_with_rage_at_the_texas_abortion_bill/hbh7axd/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf