Possible subsaidit problems

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[–]kokolokoNightcrawler 2 insightful - 5 fun2 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 5 fun -  (5 children)

omg, who copyrighted those subs...? How are they "stolen"?

[–]OffAndSphere[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Not really "stolen". The problem is, if a sub was talking about apples—let's say it's called s/apples, and it didn't allow negativity towards them, some people might want to create a sub that talks about the pros and cons about apples. Let's say they wanted to call it s/appleDiscussion. The trouble is advertising that sub because most people would just give up looking for a subreddit named like that after not being able to post negativity about apples on s/apples, making it hard to grow a sub like that.

[–]kokolokoNightcrawler 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

i still don't understand what you're talking about...I surprise myself sometimes just how stupid I am

[–]teelo 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Its simple: the longer a sub name is, the harder it is to grow.

Compare the size of /r/wow (1.6 million) vs /r/competitivewow (73k).

Edit: A better example - /r/wow (1.6 million) vs /r/classicwow (400k). The difference in size is why the Classic WoW players pushed so hard to get the moderators of /r/wow to allow Classic WoW posts to remain there. The mods ultimately didn't, but even with those posts redirected to a dedicated sub, it didn't grow.

[–]kokolokoNightcrawler 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think I get now what you folks are saying...You don't want mods "reserving" synonymous subs and therefor monopolizing discourse on any particular subject... You don't have to worry about any of that here. The guy owning this site and the guy deving it are very common sense type of individuals.

[–]OffAndSphere[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That, and the fact that the more "modifiers" you add to a subreddit, the slower it grows.

r/WoW had World of Warcraft as a topic. r/classicwow had World of Warcraft as a modifier too, but it was also focused on the classic version—another topic modifier. Even though r/WoW technically had a modifier of only focusing on the new WoW, it was created eight years earlier and had more time to grow, so it had a massive head start in members when r/classicwow was created, bottlenecking the growth of the second sub.