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[–]wizzwizz4[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The middle ground is so the whole community still has a say in what's acceptable, so the standards are held across all subs and users and so that people aren't inundated with content that they don't find useful while still being shown content that they might find interesting.

Say that somebody doesn't want to hear about corruption in the US (me!). However, there's something new about the Bayer company poisoning something or other by negligence. I'd want to know about that, so I know what medicines to be careful of (in case they're reselling them to other markets again) and that's the kind of thing that gets a lot of insightful votes very quickly. Same with other important or interesting things; I might discover an interest in astronomy from seeing an incredibly detailed shot of the space around a decades-past supernova, but I wouldn't want to know about the relative merits of various telescopes unless I was interested.