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It does actually. You can exclude subs from /r/all.
Not according to /r/help: https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/44498b/how_to_hide_or... > there is no basic Reddit feature which will hide or filter a subreddit from the /r/All page.
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> The community there is simply too toxic and I've had to quit it. Which community? There are thousands of subreddits. Are you talking about the people who use the default front-page subreddits?
I use the front page because I'm interested in what's popular. But someone's angry "f--k (politician here)" rant isn't my idea of entertainment, even if I don't like the politician, likewise various violence/creepy stuff that makes the front page. Reddit doesn't let me block subs.
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Are you talking about converting people from Reddit to Voten? Maybe the point is that they want more people to actively contribute rather than just lurk? It could just be a different opinion on what a Reddit alternative could look like.
Lurking encourages user participation in the long run. Sure, a few people will be early adopters and begin contributing with enthusiasm, but a larger chunk of users prefer to consume content passively before making the decision that contributing is worth it for them. Turning away your potential audience with an immediate demand to register is a great way to make sure your content isn't read.
I bet most folks started to use HN after they lurked for a while. I think it's not uncommon to lurk for weeks or months first before one decides to join.
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In my experience, you get out of reddit what you put in. With an account you can unsubscribe from specific subreddits, which I have done to clean up my feed from angry/creepy/violent stuff and I get posts that I am very interested in, primarily from smaller subreddits about hobbies, sports, cool technology, etc.
I have an account, and am unsubscribed from subreddits I do not like. There's no way to visit /r/all without seeing all the political hate, creepypasta, and violence.
To expand on that a little - if I forget and link an interesting comment thread to a friend and they have to register to view it I look like a dork. It's not happening.
Signed up, wandered around, here are my impression. * Nothing fancy, nothing new, nothing impressive. I wouldn't spend time on this site. * The graphical design wasters most of my screen estate. * The side panel overlaps with the content when the window is not in full-screen. * If you register without an email, it is impossible to add one. * Did I mention that 60% of my screen estate is wasted ? * Reddit is open sour…
Generally agree. But correct me if I'm wrong, Reddit hasn't been open source for a long time?
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In my experience, you get out of reddit what you put in. With an account you can unsubscribe from specific subreddits, which I have done to clean up my feed from angry/creepy/violent stuff and I get posts that I am very interested in, primarily from smaller subreddits about hobbies, sports, cool technology, etc.
I have an account, and am unsubscribed from subreddits I do not like. There's no way to visit /r/all without seeing all the political hate, creepypasta, and violence.
> /r/all
It includes all the subreddit potentially; that's the point. Make a metareddit if you want tighter control; or tailor your FP
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It does actually. You can exclude subs from /r/all.
Not according to /r/help: https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/44498b/how_to_hide_or... > there is no basic Reddit feature which will hide or filter a subreddit from the /r/All page.
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> who's gonna switch to this? Scott Alexander put it very well, in describing the right-leaning Reddit clone voat.co, and its influx of new users after Reddit purged some subs: "The moral of the story is: if you’re against witch-hunts, and you promise to found your own little utopian community where witch-hunts will never happen, your new society will end up consisting of approximately three principled civil libertar…
Are there libertarian-hunts as well?
