Comment by telchii on 25/08/2021 at 23:23 UTC*

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View submission: Introducing Subreddit Forking

I'm really not a fan of this. It feels like you're chasing a shallow growth metric rather than helping existing and established communities to grow.

Discoverability improvements need to exist *before* there's a push to spawn new communities. Otherwise, this will just generate more subreddits that die within a week, which will lead to more reddit requests. (It feels extremely counterproductive to the recent sub namespace cleanup.)

Since it's already in play, here's my questions:

• How will these forks be linked to the originating subreddit? Will I have control over which subs will be shown as linked to my sub? (I don't want to be automatically linked to a NSFL subreddit that someone decides to spawn off of my sub.)

• What kind of advertisement will happen to let others know about the sub's creation?

• What tools are in place to help these forks survive more than a couple of days?

• If someone creates a fork and isn't aware of the moderator queues and tools, how will this affect their account's standing when their sub inevitably gets spammed and banned?

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