Am I automatically subscribed to new subs when they are made?

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[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

So were I to post for example a Tin Foil Hat episode I might be compelled/forced to post it in "news" or

But you realize 99% of users just look at /all because it's the front page, right? So only some tiny portion, like 1%, would be excluded by posting it to a non-default sub. Seems like a non-problem tbh

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Do your statistics really reflect that or did you figuratively guess that?

I used to use "hot" and "new" and "comments" only - never "all". Trying to break my addiction I stopped using "comments" - ironically before you created the "comments" tab.

I hope to stop using "new" soon too. (So I can focus on projects.)

This will leave me in the same position I was just complaining about that is inherent in Reddit too. The "hot" items will be "popular" but not necessarily the best if there aren't enough folks actually sifting through all of it.

Similarily on Reddit, stats prove that the first dozen comments are waaaay more likely to be voted the best even if #50 of 100 is clearly the best. It's a flaw of the system.

It's also quantity problem. I'm overwhelmed here and feel like I'm missing stuff. Like anything I guess. Can't read all the books, see all the movies, hear all the music, etc.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I used to use "hot" and "new"

Those are /all. The selections at the very very top ("home", "all", "subscribed") are supercategories, and the sorting methods like "hot", "new", etc are subcategories of those. So when you visit "hot" you're visting the hot sort of /home (which is basically a mirror of /all with /s/ads missing).

For any of the subscription stuff to matter at all, you would have to have clicked "subscribed" at the very top, and then browse "hot" and "new" that way.

The fact you hadn't found this (despite being such a dedicated user) just kind of backs up my guess that 99% of users have never clicked it and thus never used their subscriptions

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Good to know. Thanks.

So I'm a dedicated user. Does that mean I'm no longer a noob? Do I get a badge? (I hate Wiki badges.)

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah like magnora said we're essentially talking about the /s/subscribed page policy, which on reddit is the home page, but here we have /s/all minus ads as the home page. So we are already very biased toward showing all subs and all content to everyone. So we have de-emphasized this default list of subs. It is still important I guess, maybe we'll do a saidit survey so community picked subs also end up on the default list.

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

Do you guys think my table and/or statistics are useful at all?

It seems to me that it should be rather easy to code (but I know nothing about the gut of SaidIt) and it seems like being able to have sub (and post and other) usage statistics would have many uses - including determining the most active/popular subs for your list, watching trends, etc.

I'd be shocked if it wasn't already embedded in the code somehow. Then again, whoever configured the flair... ...and without multiple metatags... ...maybe it wouldn't shock me.