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user-inactivated  ·  3090 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: So... Why the hell am I forced to witness the abomination that is /r/The_Donald in /r/all?

    I dunno. Just bothers me.

Get off r/all or maybe even get off Reddit altogether. I spend less and less time there myself, only browsing r/cars, r/autos, r/boxing, and a few others from time to time on my lunch breaks. My last Reddit post was a while back. My three last actual Reddit interactions were me pming people telling them they should check out Hubski.





tacocat  ·  3090 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Step 1- Remove all image subreddits

Step 2- Remove all default subreddits

Step 3- Subscribe to small subreddits and heavily modded ones like /r/askscience

Step 4- Don't venture outside your walled garden unless you want to jerk off

You are now subscribed to 8 subreddits and reddit is almost a sane place.

rthomas6  ·  3086 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This seems like a good place to suggest some subreddits that I enjoy:

/r/AskSocialScience

/r/OutOfTheLoop

/r/BreakingDad (Private, for dads only)

/r/changemyview

NoTroop  ·  3089 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This really is the way to do it. I subscribe to small enough/few enough subreddits that I actually see every single link posted to them (I know because I hide them all after I view them, and run out quite often). And most of them are things I'm actually interested in hearing about.

If I want to relax and just read a bunch of easily consumable content, I go to /r/all.

oyster  ·  3089 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This is what I did a few times but I ended up giving up when they kept making the subs I actually liked defaults.

user-inactivated  ·  3089 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Good for you. I don't see why your preferences should dictate mine, though. I find Reddit to be informative and funny at times, and that's good enough for me. It's the /r/The_Donald part that I don't find good enough.

EDIT: Sorry, man, I shouldn't've been so mean about it. I know you mean good, but it sounded like just because you don't like something, I shouldn't, either. I won't judge you if you don't, so don't judge me if I do. Unless it's actively detrimental to my mental health, I see no reason to quit Reddit or even stop browsing it.

Don't give in to the anti-Reddit circlejerk that's been going on around Hubski lately. As much as we hail ourselves as "a thoughtful web", we, too, have our weaknesses, and I hope that you, with the kind heart, won't succumb to it.

user-inactivated  ·  3090 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Just about sums it up for me. Only use it for my school's subreddit and occasionally some gaming interests. No need to continue a pattern that only gets me wound up.