Too many subs

submitted by Drewski from self.SaidIt

I know this isn't the first time this has been brought up, I've seen this discussed several times but I couldn't find it using a search. For a community of this size, it doesn't make sense to have posts spread out so thinly across so many different subs.

I guess this is more of an appeal to users than to admins, because I'm not in favor of restricting the creation and use of subs.

For example, it doesn't make sense to post in a separate sub for each country when it could go into /s/worldnews, similarly there are a multitude of conspiracy subs where it would be much simpler to post in /s/conspiracy. Many of these subs have only one page of posts, with the last post being months ago. Having so many redundant subs makes it more difficult to browse a certain topic.

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[–]fred_red_beans 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I disagree, I think it does make sense to post in country specific subs as when someone is looking for information related to that country (or topic), it's all contained in the sub.

I do think there are repeat or duplicate subs to topics.

I also am not a fan of posting the same thing in multiple subs as it just shows in the feed multiple times. Seems better just to choose one.

[–]happysmash27 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Posting in multiple subs is good on Reddit, where many people may browse in some subs and not others, but on SaidIt, the entire site is about the size of a small Reddit sub, and combined with the fact that all subs are visible by default, this makes it so people tend to see a post on all subs it is posted to.

[–]HeyImSancho 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I just post in my little sub. I know there have been members who appear to be inactive at this point, but created LOTS of subs for 'future expansion'.

[–]Mnemonic 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

2) One person cannot moderate more than 40 subs. Creating multiple accounts to bypass this is not allowed.

https://saidit.net/s/SaidIt/comments/w6s/saidit_rules_for_moderators/

[–]HeyImSancho 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Honestly, I'm glad you know. However, for myself, life is too short to worry about Saidit rules, or anything that is outside of my own self development. What I try to practice is simple respect. Perhaps the member who had multiple subs was banned, or something, no idea.

Thanks for Sharing.

[–]VantaFount 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I agree, because as it stands there are so many different places for people to post spam, and in many of these subs we have no idea if the creator is even around to moderate the space anymore.
For instance /s/Healthcare has been placed under my care, and I can keep spam out of it easily enough, but then there's also /s/Health.....why do we need both subs at this time?

[–]Robin 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Is there a procedure to merge subs? Could be tidier than leaving them unmaintained...

[–]VantaFount 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

To my knowledge, there is not.

[–]happysmash27 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It is good for having different moderators on different subs. Perhaps that should be a rule: One cannot moderate a sub which has a name synonymous with the name of another sub they moderate.

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

There's also s/TIL and /s/todayilearned

Edit:no spam there or anything but still why do we need 2?

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

I agree with the multi-post.
When you have a list of duplicates.. the same links could be "folded" into one item. You may have separate discussions (as fold-out links) under the item.

[–]magnora7 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

This is the plan, to eventually allow all crossposts to be merged in to one post, that only appears once in the feed, but has comments from all the subs put together (and is sortable if you only want comments from one or two subs). Someone just has to figure out how to code this crossposting system.