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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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.

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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.