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View submission: Reddit's Decline in Democracy
what's the point of ... subreddits ?
FTFY :P
Quite apart from the article's grievances, they Just Don't Work, imo. They are entirely useless for controlling what kind of stories you see and don't see - sick of politics? Unsubscribe from /r/politics? Oh, tons of politics stories are in the main reddit anyway. Interested in funnies? Subscribe to /r/funny? Oh, half of them are duped between funny and main site anyway.
Basically unsubscribing does nothing to stop those type of stories in your feed, and subscribing merely increases the number of dupes you see.
The whole system is really broken and ill conceived imo.
Comment by raldi at 14/05/2009 at 02:11 UTC
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The key is to unsubscribe from the main reddit.
Comment by [deleted] at 14/05/2009 at 02:02 UTC
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I considered myself well-informed about the military when I started reading the same stories from three different sources within a week of one another. I read /r/women, /r/MensRights, /r/feminisms and /r/Equality because I like to see various viewpoints and closed systems discussing the same topics. It makes each side's bias more clear, and gives me further chance to make up my own mind on various topics.
In my mind, the subreddit system is the only thing keeping this site alive.