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[–]kleopatra6tilde9 2 points3 points ago

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Please remember to explain why you downvote an article. Your downvotes don't scale as much as the spread of knowledge.

[–]adomental 0 points1 point ago

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The issue for me is that the charter for TrueReddit is too wide.

A subreddit for really great, insightful articles.

It is far too broad a field. Look at some of the other more cerberal subreddits, such as AskScience. It is broad enough to receive a wide range of submissions, but it is narrow enough to focus the general theme of the subreddit into a coherent message and a commnity with rules that are understood by it's readers.

TrueReddit on the other hand, suffers from lack of a clear objective. Articles are posted on a wide range of topics, politics, media, technology, people, science and so on. Most of them may even meet the criteria of being "insightful." Who can say?

This is where it is difficult for me and I am assuming other users like me, because who I am to say whether an article on philosphy isn't a "great and insightful article," just because it lies outside of my field of interest. So I neither upvote it or downvote it, because as far as I know, it is a great and insightful article, I just don't have interest in reading it to find out. I do read most articles that are about things that interest me, and I upvote and downvote accordingly.

This is where the great stagnation of articles on the front page come in. Too many different articles on too many different topics, not apathetic users. If we really want to improve the quality of the subreddit, we should look more at trimming the submissions by narrowing the submission guidelines, not by expecting the community to read more articles.

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    [–]asdfman123[S] 0 points1 point ago

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    One step at a time!
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