Automatically subscribed to every 'sub' upon creating an account? Why?

submitted by Cydramech from self.SaidIt

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

It's an opt-out system.

The idea is that you're subscribe to everything, then you simply un-subscribe to subs you don't want as you're browsing saidit.net/s/subscribed. Similar to the RES "filter" feature.

There is no reason to unsubscribe to a sub that isn't actively posting things, as it'll never appear in /s/subscribed anyways.

[–]Cydramech[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There are hundreds of thousands of subreddits, so if Reddit had an opt-out system, any user would be burned out if they had to unsub from each one individually. Thankfully, the other posters here were more helpful.

And yes, there is a good reason to not be subscribed to any particular sub, regardless of activity: it holds no interest to begin with, and more importantly, uninterested subs only inflate any actual interest there may be in a sub.

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

You make good points. Personally I like how it is now, because you can opt-out of it anyways (I did, then went through each individual sub to decide which ones I wanted to join), and it helps new but active / interesting subs gain followers faster.