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[–]djmere 433 points434 points  (8 children)

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r/breakingbad

[–]aderde 65 points66 points  (2 children)

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Do people at Burning Man stick around after it's over, showing the other few who are left pictures of them next to the cool stuff that happened?

[–]dubalubdub 17 points18 points  (0 children)

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regional burns happen year round so it's pretty active.

[–]suburbanite 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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..yeah, pretty much this describes every bar in SF

[–]meningles 14 points15 points  (0 children)

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/r/houseofcards. Guess that's to be expected when you release all your episodes at once though.

[–]confused-koala 45 points46 points  (0 children)

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:(

[–]NYKevin 8 points9 points  (0 children)

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/r/masseffect is still kicking, though we're mostly living on fanart at this point (and the occasional spirited debate about the relative merits of the endings). We're all quietly optimistic that the sub will survive until ME4 (or whatever Bioware decides to call it) is announced/released.

[–]heyiambob 27 points28 points  (1 child)

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[–]con42scientist 9 points10 points  (0 children)

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Completely accurate.

[–]-Minnow- 33 points34 points  (3 children)

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[–]SELKIES_ 23 points24 points  (1 child)

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I really really want /r/goforgold to take off, it's such a good idea.

[–]giveemhellkid 11 points12 points  (0 children)

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I've tackled 2.5 posts, so I assumed if be famous after some more... Then the sub stagnated.. As did my fame...

[–]Silver_Star 12 points13 points  (0 children)

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/r/goforgold

Its just taking baby-steps, goddamit!

[–]pressuretobear 24 points25 points  (3 children)

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Check out April Fools 2011's special sub: /r/basement. You could only join if you were given mold, at the time. It is now basically dead, although it was the hottest shit ever on 4/1/2011.

/r/orangered and /r/periwinkle should have had a similar fate, but they are far too popular.

[–]altrocks 7 points8 points  (2 children)

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Periwinkle 4 lyfe!

[–]UNYIELDING_NIGNOG 5 points6 points  (1 child)

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Represent!

[–]ramen244 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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DEATH TO THE PERIWINKLES

[–]Trentington88 60 points61 points  (9 children)

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[–]thechad1212 22 points23 points  (1 child)

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Wut

[–]Paulo27 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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Wut indeed.

[–]Super_delicious 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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You'd think they'd make swimsuits that prevent this sort of thing.

[–]AustinRiversDaGod 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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Aw man, I miss the 2012 olympics...

[–]BrandonRushing 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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Reddit has everything.

[–]Hwy61Revisited 67 points68 points  (3 children)

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One that comes to mind is /r/Bonnaroo, shits dead until the lineup is released, then it's a steady incline in awesome posts until the fest, then it peaks, and finally it's dead for another 9 months.

[–]Waffuls 26 points27 points  (2 children)

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A lot of festival and current TV show subs are like that between seasons/festivals, aside from things like trailers/lineups being released.

[–]SELKIES_ 9 points10 points  (1 child)

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TV subreddits are still active between seasons they're just full of awful garbage posts.

[–]holemole 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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Even during season they're mostly just pictures and captions. I wish they emphasized more on news/discussion. (At least the ones that I've subscribed to in the past)

[–]captain_zerg 31 points32 points  (0 children)

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Have people post links to what they think could be one of the best posts of the year. If it doesn't reach a certain amount of upvotes on /r/burningsub2013, then the mods delete it. This could work.

[–]Negalas 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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every two years...

/r/Ohlympics

[–]red13 9 points10 points  (0 children)

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Or what about if it was a sort of disappearing task force?

Start discussion and research about one semi-broad topic and collaboratively move toward an increased understanding. Then when it seems like everything has been raised and dissected (or people feel like there isn't more to cover) make a closing summary and change the submission permissions to approval-only. And there you go - preserving a little arc of learning and/or conversation. It would make everything isolated and potentially hard to navigate, but it would hold more of the character of a forum thread instead of the continually-forgetting nature of traditional subreddits.

[–]Intelligenttrees 10 points11 points  (1 child)

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/r/baseball or the subreddit for any of the teams. When it isn't in season, those subs are wastelands

[–]doctermustache 13 points14 points  (0 children)

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On the other hand r/nfl has some of the most ridiculous and entertaining off season discussions.

[–]shaggorama 4 points5 points  (2 children)

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You can't control the actions of the masses. It's a cool idea, but once it had momentum, people wouldn't just abandon it. The people who founded it would try to, but the late comers would stick around. It would develop its own momentum and organically become its own community. Just look at the weird shit that evolved out of the /r/FieldOfKarmicGlory reddit April Fools prank this year.

[–]Mr_Flappy 5 points6 points  (1 child)

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you can most certainly control the actions of the masses, it's just a matter of figuring out how

[–]adamwizzy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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Well, mods can just ban everyone that posts. That'd be the easiest way.

[–]MaoThatHurt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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[–]Etab 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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this happens organically to many many subreddits. they just kind of die

[–]Ucantalas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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I read that as "Running Man" and was confused about how that had anything to do with either the movie or book.

[–]gedden8co 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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/r/tourdefrance/ is like that.

[–]MakeLulzNotWar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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/r/CODZombies is soon going to be dead until the next Treyarch installment.

[–]jesuspunk 1 point2 points  (2 children)

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We should just choose a completely random subreddits and just get loads of people to post on it with on topic posts and the next day forget all about it.

[–]samoorai 2 points3 points  (1 child)

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So basically raves on subreddits?

Subravits?

[–]jesuspunk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Mother of god...

Yes.

[–]BusyDoingScience 1 point2 points  (1 child)

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/r/orangered or /r/periwinkle. Sorry if these are still going

[–]PaperTax 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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They are.

[–]VasconiumHow How it's Made Is Made. 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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/r/SummerReddit, especially seeing how it's closed.

[–]GoldarTheGreat 1 point2 points  (2 children)

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A repository that gets reddit's good content and then is ignored? 9GAG.

[–]karmapopsicle 5 points6 points  (1 child)

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I fail to see how rage comics and the utter shit that /r/funny considers content are "reddit's good content".

[–]GoldarTheGreat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Popular content, rather

[–]gaffney2010 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Why?

[–]AustinRiversDaGod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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/r/Scoreball was hilarious when it was created. Now I have no idea why it still exists...

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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isitchristmas.com comes to mind

[–]mess_is_lore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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[–]LtwoK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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r/christmas?

[–]Dronicusprime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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[–]OliverTheWanderer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Perhaps it would be better if it were just erased. It could be a collection of the best things of the year as voted on by redditors, then at the end of the year all record of everything gets deleted.

[–]Edgar_Allan_Rich 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Great posts? I think you're on the wrong website.

[–]slow56k -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

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Maybe /r/festivus? Granted, you could do this for any holiday, but it might as well be one with a grassroots movement from the past few years...

[–]pierceparadox -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

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r/gonewidl yes widl
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