I propose someone create /s/SubsWeWant. It would behoove us to discuss potential subs first, explain our goals, determine if better names exist, consider (co-)moderators, be encouraged or talked out of them, and help promote awareness about them. I have lists of sub ideas I think folks might like.

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[–]Node 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Content categorization can be useful. I'm not sure if we need a ton of new subs, though. Early reddit worked pretty well with just the one page, with way more users than saidit has right now.

What we really need is more users who aren't trolls, spammers, or shills. Only a tiny fraction of new posts get any attention at all, and lately the drama posts have been dominating.

One problem that might happen with too many 'ghost subs' is that people feel isolated if they browse by subs instead of /s/all.

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

You're not even remotely curious what people would like to see here? Further, we could discuss likes and dislikes, propose new ideas, and community activities, etc. I have big lists from over the years, and some I think would be fun and interactive.

Sure some people just come to SaidIt for the news or to be asstrolls, but IMO, SaidIt is ripe to cultivate community projects, and like other ideas and fads, some may last and some may die fast - perhaps even this idea. A community sub ABOUT community subs would be great to discuss deep sea fishing community & subs.

Bonus: The substantial differences between need and want could be defined by this post and sub name. #FoodCrisesLooms +.

Edit: You gave me a great idea. It could also be for aggregating recommended sub lists, etc. M7 shit the bed by letting anyone make them. From lemons we can make lemonaid.

Edit edit: I shouldn't type drunk.

[–]Node 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Edit edit: I shouldn't type drunk.

I've rarely had great results from drunk posting. M7 has even threatened to ban me over a couple of my drunk posts. :/ (that's all hopefully behind me now)

I'm not saying there's anything inherently wrong with having a million subs. It's more like having a lot of subs that get little activity or notice could give a kind of 'ghost city' feeling when people visit them.

I may have some extra bias due to AOU (one of the poal admins) having an autistic obsession with moving posts to the "correct" sub. It's a little off-putting.

/s/SubsWeWant could be a good way to determine whether there's a need for more subs. I can endorse that.

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

I would fucking love that Poal admin correcting and organizing - if it were done effectively and sensitively within reason - also assuming we laid out the rules clearly and had decent topical subs. SaidIt didn't always have a great selection to file things into.

This further cements the idea that we need metatags, not subs. (Or better: MetaVotes on a Phoenix Forum.)

The reality, ugly or not depending how you view it, is that SaidIt is for taboo topics banned from Reddit, mostly political and/or divisive. Reddit may always be a better place for niche interests - until a (Phoenix) forum comes along that is clearly superior.

SaidIt has strengths and weaknesses. Recognize and improve the weaknesses if possible, but dwell on the strengths. SaidIt cannot be all things for all people. The ghost town vibe is trivial and unimportant, IMO.

If it bugs you that much raise an army of recruits, storm the M7onarchy and demand he make a new policy to delete all completely empty subs over 2 months (or whatever time frame you like). AND it would be easy enough to write a script to copy-paste all the settings of that sub into a file to openly post into a dedicated sub documenting the process openly and transparently, so nothing is lost (ie. some fancy sidebox info).

While you're at it you could ask that unmoderated subs for 6+months be available to be co-modded.