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View submission: Experimental reddit change: subreddits may now opt-out of /r/all
I'm aware this is 3 months old now but I'm extremely disappointed by this change. I've found many of my favorite subreddits through /r/all, and had no idea they existed before then. I loved having the insight into the random hobbies people have or big local news.
Would it be possible to disable user participation from /r/all or something? This has impacted my reddit experience quite negatively.
Comment by alienth at 10/10/2014 at 23:45 UTC
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It should be noted that this change is an opt-out, at the decision of the moderators. Most mods want more traffic, and want to have users discover their subreddit, and as such they'll remain in /r/all.
There are some subreddits which want to opt-out of such discovery options, and we saw no major reason to prevent them from doing so. The communities which have opted-out have welcomed it. There are some cases, like /r/games, where the community actively welcomes not having a firehose of outsiders. There are other communities where such a firehose can be actively damaging, like SuicideWatch.