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View submission: An update on subreddit classification efforts
Are communities punished based on which classification they fall into (by, for example, being removed from /r/all or /r/popular)?
Comment by 0perspective at 01/09/2020 at 18:36 UTC
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The goal is to help users understand what they can expect to see on Reddit and give them more control over what they want to see. What community content is surfaced in a given experience (e.g. homefeed, popular, community, recommendations, notifications) would be set by a combination of the community’s content tags, the user’s preferences and the user’s expectations for the feature. For example, my expectations are different if I choose to visit a specific community vs Reddit recommending a community to me.
Comment by DrewsephA at 01/09/2020 at 18:37 UTC
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Of course they will. This change isn't to help users (that's just a by-product), it's for them to be able to hide unpleasant subs for the advertisers.