The current default “Homepage” value is “All”. That makes sense for users with zero subscribed magazines, so they see something.

But for users with one or more subscribed magazines, the default value for “Homepage” needs to be “Subscriptions”.

That’s partially just because subscriptions mean little if the default frontpage ignores them. But there’s a more important reason than that.

The current situation is that posts in m/Conservative are heavily downvoted, and barely upvoted. (Whatever your politics may be, consider if this was happening to you.) As more ex-redditors join, this problem is likely to worsen.

Eventually moderators need better controls, to say things like “Only members can vote”, etc.

But for now, a very easy fix is to change the default value of “Homepage” to be “Subscriptions”. Of course, “All” should still be a selectable option for those who prefer it.

  • 10A@kbin.socialOP
    11·
    1 year ago

    when your entire office votes “no” to you banging on drums during the workday

    Heh

    On reddit, I never looked at r/all, and I don’t know how many people did, but it’s something you only ever see if you seek it out.

    My gripe here is just about the default “Homepage” value. Most people don’t change defaults, and it would be more appropriate to default to “Subscriptions”. That would mostly solve the problem.

    Sure, a few people could still choose to go to m/all and see things from other communities. But how often does that happen? I don’t think it’s common enough to worry about.

    You may just have to be content knowing that people that subscribe to /m/conservative go there intentionally despite the posts falling down on the all tab.

    Sure, but this really isn’t about that magazine specifically. It’s about all minority groups with unpopular viewpoints.

    I like your username, btw.