Comment by Xaxxon on 03/03/2021 at 20:01 UTC

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People may just not even know they want it and not know to look for it. I fail to see the harm in the change as proposed.

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Comment by h0nest_Bender at 03/03/2021 at 20:04 UTC

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People may just not even know they want it

We could ask them. Announce the feature and allow people to decide if it's a feature they want or not (opt-in).

But nah, people don't know what they like, so we need reddit admins to tell us what we like. By force.

Comment by RoseTyler38 at 04/03/2021 at 04:59 UTC

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People may just not even know they want it

Then ask them about it, or make a big announcement about it, or DM every single reddit user.

...and **let them opt in if they want it**.

Comment by LarryBeard at 04/03/2021 at 09:44 UTC

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People may just not even know they want it and not know to look for it.

Stop. Pushing shit onto people is bad practice. PERIOD.

Comment by Gazpacho--Soup at 04/03/2021 at 12:04 UTC

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You fail to see the harm? Then read any of the top level comments that give extremely good reasons why this is bad.