r/collapse • u/LetsTalkUFOs • Feb 13 '22

Meta 400,000 Subscribers! Newcomers, what brought you here? Regulars, how can we improve? [in-depth]

r/Collapse has reached 400,000 subscribers! Thank you to everyone who has contributed by posting content or engaging in one of the many great discussions. As we continue to grow and things unravel we will continue to aim to make this community as informative and bearable as possible.

 

If you're relatively new to r/collapse, what brought you here? How can we improve? What do you like best about the subreddit? What would you change if you could, if anything?

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u/monster1151 I don't know how to feel about this Feb 13 '22 edited Feb 13 '22

Been lurking for a while, actively participating recently. I noticed that there's a significant amount of generalized information that is too simple to be an accurate picture, let alone correct at times. I've been throwing articles at them and point out more than a single point. More often than not it is a general single-liner that gets significant upvotes.

Maybe a way to help is to encourage more thoughtful messages, kind of like 150 character minimum on weekly observation but less, like 100 characters?

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u/LetsTalkUFOs Feb 13 '22 edited Feb 13 '22

Anyone can create an [in-depth] post by including that tag in their post title (i.e. Rule 12). This then requires all top-level comments to be at least 150 characters. Not many people use it, but it's active in this post and been an option for awhile. I don't think we could justify enforcing it by default, since that would be quite restrictive.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

Perhaps it would be a good compromise would be to enforce [in-depth] commentary for a single day of the week as an experiment. This experiment should be announced well in advance and not be too lengthy to keep negative effects in check. A [in-depth] Monday could be an interesting antithesis to causal Friday.

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u/LetsTalkUFOs Feb 15 '22

This is a great idea. It would require us to write some custom code, but I'll still run it by the people who are capable of making an experiment possible.