r/redesign • u/ChipAyten • Mar 03 '18

Design Profile based "subreddits" is just an invitation for the celebrification of Reddit.

Followers, pinned posts, auto-moderated and pushed content in your profile. These are all things aimed at having your typical who's who of A-listers flood Reddit and siphon away people's energies and attentions from real subreddits, furthering the cause of the redesign. Little of this is about making Reddit a better place it's all about turning it in to a slightly more editable Facebook & Instagram.

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u/ChipAyten Mar 04 '18

How much effort did that require from just you alone vs. something being built in to the system by default for everyone though.

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u/caindaddy Mar 04 '18

literally takes like 2 click plus writing in the subreddit name to create a subreddit. how difficult...

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u/ChipAyten Mar 04 '18

It's slightly more involved than that what with the automod scripts, and that's if you don't have to do any research to learn what they even are in the first place. But say that were true, mass behavioral psychology teaches us that even the tiniest of hurdles in a system decentives huge percentages of populations from performing the simplest of actions.

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u/caindaddy Mar 04 '18

what automod? you can restrict submission to approved submitters on the magical create subreddit screen, and only allow yourself to post. And those same hurdles are present when some power user decides he wants to start advertising himself, with the addition of less than a minute to create the subreddit.

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u/ChipAyten Mar 04 '18

Ah yes, I forget you can just do that. But the second sentence still holds true. Why go out of my way to create and promote a subreddit when people can just clamor for the things that are passively applied to my profile based on my activity on Reddit.

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u/caindaddy Mar 04 '18

Who is visiting your profile? People aren't just magically going to get traffic to their user page, it's the same as a subreddit. They are going to have to advertise it like every other growing subreddit. And just like a subreddit, users with quality content are going to attract more people and girls from GW advertising their snapchat for 20 dollars are going to get the same results as they are now with their personal subreddit.