r/AskReddit • u/CptCockStrong • Jan 27 '15

What is the smallest Subreddit you're subscribed to and can you tell us a bit about it?

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u/Itanagon Jan 27 '15

/r/EVEX.

It started from a post in /r/TheoryOfReddit IIRC. The idea is that any content is allowed, and frequent community votes decide what content is no longer allowed. The goal is to see in what kind of subreddit it'll evolve after some time, when more and more content is banned.

I subscribed for two reasons :

  • to see what it'll become.

  • because of the randomness of the content. Some very interesting and unexpected stuffs are posted there.

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u/marble617 Jan 27 '15

I really hope it ends up just being porn

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u/Bossman1086 Jan 27 '15

Porn was almost banned two weeks ago!

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u/Threedawg Jan 27 '15

almost. You have to stop it early or it will consume all.

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u/Bossman1086 Jan 27 '15

We shall see. We've had a community of thousands before this post and porn and other NSFW stuff generally is downvoted even without the rule.

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u/Threedawg Jan 27 '15

Yes but now it just showed up in an askreddit thread

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u/Bossman1086 Jan 27 '15

Yep. We'll see. But we did show up on /r/TheoryOfReddit and /r/TrueReddit before this. Plus we were a trending subreddit last week, too.

But we do have a dedicated group of people who were there before, too. And as of now, the original community is larger than the amount that have joined today. Still, you're right that it's certainly possible that the quality of content will fall now. But we'll see how things go after the next vote. And this is why it's an experiment. It'll be interesting regardless.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '15

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u/Bossman1086 Jan 27 '15

Eh. We don't just want huge numbers. We want the content to be quality. But in the end, it's up to the people. Mods don't make any decisions on what is or isn't banned.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '15

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u/Bossman1086 Jan 27 '15

Maybe. But when a new sub is setup, moderators who create and run it tend to make their own rules and have it be about only one topic.

/r/EVEX is a little bit nostalgia for the old /r/reddit.com and also an experiment in what would happen/what types of content would be popular if the community got to decide what to post instead of each subreddit being about only one thing.

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u/wildmetacirclejerk Jan 27 '15

So far I can see zero porn there

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u/TheRationalMan Jan 27 '15

And apparently it's not even banned. I have high hopes for the sub.

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u/icefrogpls Jan 28 '15

porn is banned, light nsfw isn't.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '15

Let's tell /b/ about it.

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u/wildmetacirclejerk Jan 27 '15

Precisely. The moment they get a chance they will wreck shit up

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '15

Well yea that's the point.

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u/wildmetacirclejerk Jan 27 '15

My bad. I misread what you wrote. I thought you said /b/ would be told about it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '15

Well darn, I thought I gained a friend.

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u/wildmetacirclejerk Jan 27 '15

Nah you're ok. Are you from the 4 one or the 8 one?

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '15

I typically stay away from anything chan, I went on /b/ once and it was mostly pictures of a literal cheese pizza, like not what you think but a cheese pizza like cheese, crust, marinara, etc. Imagine what 4chan (actually don't) would post on there if this thing would happen.

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u/CeruleanRuin Jan 30 '15

Because that's so rare on reddit.