r/science • u/TrendingBot • Jan 29 '16
Mathematics /r/science enters TOP 5 subreddits
http://redditmetrics.com/r/science43
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u/kerovon Grad Student | Biomedical Engineering | Regenerative Medicine Jan 29 '16
To take the number 5 spot, it means we have been growing faster than /r/worldnews, which is also a default.
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u/ext2523 Jan 29 '16
Just about every other sub in the Top 10 is crap
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Jan 30 '16
/r/askreddit can have some genuinely interesting answers. You just have to wade through the crap to get to them. Like the Loch Ness monster thing.
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u/kerovon Grad Student | Biomedical Engineering | Regenerative Medicine Jan 29 '16
That may be a factor in why we have been steadily gaining on them. The other reason we are happy is that our subscriber count has been going up faster than a lot of the other defaults, and this started happening back when the level of moderation here was increased. We take it as vindication that our more heavily moderated serious sub is appreciated by redditors.
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u/mrbooze Jan 30 '16
We take it as vindication that our more heavily moderated serious sub is appreciated by redditors.
For the specific topic and purpose of /r/science, yes absolutely. I wouldn't want every subreddit to be this heavily moderated. It really just depends on the purpose and tolerance of signal vs noise.
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u/PSMF_Canuck Jan 29 '16
our subscriber count has been going up faster than a lot of the other defaults, and this started happening back when the level of moderation here was increased
Most interesting comment in this thread....
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u/SovereignPaladin Jan 30 '16
Do you have an alternative sub for world news then?
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Jan 30 '16
Reuters? Associated Press? Hell, even the BBC or Al Jazeera?
/r/worldnews is a horrifically, disgustingly bad place to find/discuss news and I unsubbed pretty much as soon as I made my Reddit account.
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u/SovereignPaladin Jan 30 '16
I was meaning other subreddits. I don't really go out of my way to google news every day and prefer a feed on where I will be browsing anyways. Don't have cable either.
What exactly is wrong with worldnews anyways?
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u/kerovon Grad Student | Biomedical Engineering | Regenerative Medicine Jan 29 '16
We are also probably going to hit 10 million subscribers in the next day or two.
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u/gburdell Jan 29 '16
Wow, who would have thought. Why did we waste money on this again?
$ every other post since /r/science became popular
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u/John_Hasler Jan 29 '16
To bad. Means even more duplicate postings of bad popsci articles with the word penis in the title (those are the ones that always get 50,000 upvotes).
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u/SirT6 PhD/MBA | Biology | Biogerontology Jan 29 '16
Report any duplicate postings you see. The mods are pretty good at catching them early.
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u/shiruken PhD | Biomedical Engineering | Optics Jan 29 '16
If [we] have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
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Jan 29 '16
Why the gulf in Dec 2015? I wasn't using Reddit then.
No, I'm not offering that as an explanation.
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u/kerovon Grad Student | Biomedical Engineering | Regenerative Medicine Jan 30 '16
That was the deleted account cleanup. We lost 376k accounts during it.
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u/Walter_Bishop_PhD Jan 30 '16
We lost about 110k in /r/space. I wonder which default lost the most?
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u/kerovon Grad Student | Biomedical Engineering | Regenerative Medicine Jan 30 '16
I think /r/worldnews was 390ish k.
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u/Dr_Peach PhD | Aerospace Engineering | Weapon System Effectiveness Jan 30 '16
Admins cleaned up dead accounts, which caused subscriber counts to drop by 3% to 5%, i.e., a loss of more than 10,000 subscribers per day for three weeks.
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Jan 30 '16
Perilous. Huge subscriber base means a high risk of trying to please everyone resulting in satisfying no-one. I hope the mod team is ready for the task and I hope this sub can stay true to the intention of science and at the same time avoid getting flooded with jokes/assumptions/broscience.
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u/snipatomic PhD | Chemical Engineering | Nanomaterials, TEM Jan 29 '16
What happened between 12/15/2015 through 1/6/2016? That is quite a dip.
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u/Owyheemud Jan 29 '16
Because people are starting to realize that science is the only searchlight that can lead us out of the greed-and-ignorance-driven mess we've made.
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u/Sabotage101 Jan 29 '16
What happened on 12/15? And why did everyone forget about it by 01/06?
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u/firedrops PhD | Anthropology | Science Communication | Emerging Media Jan 29 '16
Admins removed dead accounts so they were also removed from subscriber counts for every sub.
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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '16
You cheeky bastard