/u/kn0thing

Where to begin? How about where it all started.

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/87/the_downing_street_memo/

Let's assume we live in a strange parallel universe where everything is the same in our timeframe except the iraq war is happening now.

Where do you post the downing street memo today such that it gets attention and sparks the largest protests in history (which end up accomplishing nothing but that's beside the point).

You don't even get that far.

Reddit is no longer a viable soapbox. All you can do is circle jerk and counter circle jerk.

There is no community, only splintering.

There is no information market for subreddits, only opacity.

A catch all default cleanly solves so many of the perceptual and procedural problems that plague this community that it baffles my mind why the admins are so opposed to exploring this option.

What are you afraid of?

You have this to say on subreddit competition

The way we designed reddit was to be a platform for millions of communities (500K so far) and if a particular community's mod team jumps the shark, redditors can quickly leave to another community that enforces rules they approve. We've seen this happen time and time again (the first was /r/marijuana to /r/trees exodus).

But you and I are both adults, we both pay attention to reddit.

The /r/trees example is so old as to be prehistoric, and if it happened time and time again you would site a much less controversial example.

It's never happened with any community of any significant size since the fall of /r/reddit.com

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/1m336u/will_we_ever_see_another_rmarijuanatype_emigration/

Those breaks that do happen are always trigger by some relatively cataclysmic event, it's never a matter of 'hey this sub kinda sucks maybe we could do it better' it's always some mod drama.

As a result of this, drama and witch hunts are the most effective promotional tool on reddit that doesn't require admin ordination, default approval, or stacks of cash.

Is it any wonder that it happens so often?

This has been a known problem for years. Plenty of times the admins tell us of some 'fix' or improvement to the defaults just on the horizon. But nothing ever changes but your subjective shuffling of the topics.

It was near impossible to offset an existing sub even WITH /r/reddit.com and you suggest that it's the easiest thing in the world today.

Maybe if a sub was moderated by Hitler or Pao that would be one thing, but the world isn't black and white; and neither is the character of a subreddit's quality.

But none of this matters. You don't give a damn about me or the existing subscriber base any more.

You've done the math, and you know that growth is the hit you need.

Well the approach you have taken has made me and plenty of other redditors want to burn this site to the ground rather than let you profit off its ruin.

How can we fix this?

The solution is simple and you could do it RIGHT NOW, it's the easiest thing in the world and there would be hundreds if not thousands of willing mods.

Make the mod log public, be as transparent as you claim to be.

Actions not words.

The systematic changes of this site over the past 5 years have led be to believe that reddit is not a platform to express my ideas or participate in the conversation.

So I'm not going to anymore. Not until you /r/BringBackReddit or finally explain why /r/twoxchromosomes is and should be the only default subreddit to allow political advocacy.

Then it all crashes down
And you break your crown
And you point your finger
But there’s no one around
Just want one thing
Just to play the king
But the castle’s crumbled
And you’re left with just a name

Where's your crown?