21 upvotes, 4 direct replies (showing 4)
View submission: Experimental reddit change: subreddits may now opt-out of /r/all
/r/all/new isn't very useful for humans as it is simply too much content these days. It's mostly used by bots, both good and bad. I think there is some value in having a place which can be used to gather an exhaustive list of posts on the site.
This is something we may choose to adjust. Time and results will tell.
Comment by epsy at 07/07/2014 at 22:57 UTC
9 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Maybe opting out of /r/all/new and /r/all/comments would be a good way of ridding oneself of the influx of LinkFixer- and SmileyFaceBots, although /u/radd_it's /r/BotWatchman is already a pretty good solution for that.
Comment by dietotaku at 18/08/2014 at 15:27 UTC
1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
please allow us to remove ourselves from /all/new. i moderate a sub that regularly gets users from /all/new ignoring our rules and leaving shitty unwelcome comments. we haven't gone private yet because we want the ability to refer specific users and allow them to check out our content before deciding whether to subscribe, but we do not benefit from being advertised to users outside our demographic through the /all/new queue.
Comment by MrCheeze at 07/07/2014 at 23:42 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
The decision you went with was the best one, I think.
Comment by hermithome at 08/07/2014 at 04:44 UTC
0 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Couldn't the admins just disable voting from new? That way, any bot that hung out on new, voting, would have to call up each page and vote on it directly. Which would get them quickly shut down for having too many API calls. That could maintain the useful nature of new and new comments but get rid of the downvote bot problems.