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View submission: The history of the /r/xkcd kerfuffle.
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Comment by Wyboth at 09/02/2014 at 02:31 UTC
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How's that better than just letting people set up whatever subreddits they like and then just subscribing to the ones you like.
What? How is that relevant? Please rephrase that; that makes no sense at all.
What's with the weird need to "capture" some kind of pre-existing audience? There's enough room in the world for more than one subreddit on the same subject.
In the case of /r/xkcdcomic, it needs a large audience so it can function as an effective substitute. If it was just 100 subscribers, you wouldn't have very meaningful discussions about xkcd there.
There are plenty of artists who make great art but have fucked up personal views and allowing them carte-blanche control over how fans discus and dissect that work would be disastrous in many cases.
That would be better than unrelated people controlling how fans discuss and dissect the artist's work, especially when the artist doesn't want that to happen. That isn't what's happening at /r/xkcd, but you get my point. They should have the right to the main subreddit dedicated to their work. What they do with it is up to them.
It makes absolutely no sense for an artist to have control over how people discuss or reference their work on completely independent sites.
It is to ensure that someone with a conflict of interest doesn't gain control of it and start associating their work with things they hate, like what happened on /r/xkcd. Realistically, how many artists are going to force their own opinions on people? I mean, wouldn't they just make it about their art?