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View submission: Experimental reddit change: subreddits may now opt-out of /r/all
As a user I personally value good quality discussions over a throng of low effort comments that are only posted to give you a cheap laugh. With this change moderators are able to get more control over their subreddit and we'll see less bad comments, trolls, drama and personal attacks in general. Many of the heavily moderated subreddits will most likely opt-out of /r/all, but that itself isn't the moderators fault.
Is it worse for the casual user and reddit as a whole? Yes, absolutely, but it'll also mean higher quality discussions and quality control in the subreddits that decides to opt-out.
Comment by [deleted] at 08/07/2014 at 00:15 UTC
26 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Certainly I agree this will be better for some middle-sized subreddits. But it would be such a shame if I ever miss out on discovering subreddits like /r/AskHistorians because they weren't on /r/all.
Also currently the same checkbox allows your subreddit to appear on the trending subreddits, so you're currently forced to choose to exclude both forms of subreddit discovery.