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Comment by shirro | Hacker News Reader

I don't understand the people who don't like Reddit based on the front page. FFS, Reddit is a platform and the action is in the subreddits. There are some very high quality subreddits with good mods which work as well or better than HN.

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Case in point: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2bs0rc/ama_fe...

Holy text walls batman :-). Great read though, great writers in that thread and definitely learned a fair share about feudalism (though probably won't remember it for long...)

Man I love AskHistorians. I am proud to have provided a few top-voted answers there on the subject of animation history.

I feel like the idea of "default" subreddits that everyone is subscribed already when they create an account is part of this problem. If they instead polled new users on their interests/hobbies and generated a list of related subs based on your choices it would be a huge improvement, and could be used to gather data for advertisement.

According to [1] Reddit sees 112M uniques/month but only has 2M registered users. A large fraction of reddit only sees and lurks on default subs, which reddit knows nothing about.

[1]http://www.kunocreative.com/blog/bid/89711/Leveraging-Reddit...

As every I think it depends on your point of view. When I joined reddit, half of the default subreddits where so bad that it pushed me to create an account for the sole purpose of removing them from my front page.

Also, It feels like it's giving a place the people who are in for lulz, circle jerk and "bro" things. In the end everyone finds something (except advertisers apparently), and I think it's great.

I don't like Reddit, because it always felt like a family friendly-/light- version of 4chan.

OK, but there's basically no way to know what those are.

Well, no. It makes more sense to think of a subreddit as a separate site that happens to share hosting with a bunch of other sites. Then it's obvious that you just have to search, follow the links, and try them out to see if they're any good.

There is almost guaranteed to be a reddit for your interest and it is almost certainly located at reddit.com/r/your_interest.

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