Comment by Malphos101 on 10/09/2021 at 21:23 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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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.

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Comment by PurkleDerk at 10/09/2021 at 21:32 UTC

60 upvotes, 1 direct replies

"We increased user engagement by automatically upvoting every comment a user sees. There is no opt out."