Comment · Sat, October 24, 2015 · Ceretropic & Nootropics Depot
Mods are getting overzealous with the moving of threads
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CH0CAINE · 46 points
My submissions are constantly being moved to other areas of reddit. While on the surface of it this may seem valid, I post here due to the kind of community this is and the particular slant in the response I'm looking for.
If the mechanism of mania triggered by SSRIs does not go here (it belongs to /r/AskDrugNerds and all 199 of them), what kind of discussions are supposed to go here? The thousandth post of a study that seems to stifle discussion since most of us are not able to access the study, or understand it fully? Vendor talk?
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EnLilaSko · 3 points
Oh right, lets merge /r/fitness and /r/nootropics because they both benefit each other. Throw in /r/drugs too because hey, it's drugs.
Looking at your account age you seem semi-new here, but this might just be a new acc and you've been here for long. A year ago or so we had a gazillion posts about afinils daily, that did lead to /r/afinil, just a few months ago we had tons of "PLS HELP ME WHAT TO STACK????" posts and that lead to /r/stackadvice, all natural developments of "annoying" posts in this sub. The depression sub is the newest addition, this because tons of people here seems to be depressed and wanted a more clear subreddit for that.
If there's too much of something that clouds the frontpage you usually find that a new subreddit for that subject is created, which has happened here and in lots of other subreddits. I'm semi-surprised no one has created a source-talk subreddit (just like those for /r/steroids, or do you want them to talk about soures in /r/steroids?).
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Ceretropic & Nootropics Depot
We have to balance between everyone's ideal view of how the sub should be. Some people only want to see on-topic scientific posts, while others just want discussions with the community; regardless of the topic. I personally want to see more in-depth analysis and discussions around new scientific studies. However, that takes a lot of time and effort to post. So I don't expect people to take the time to do it. It's easier to link the study, then hope others read it and start a discussion. Often times the people that read the study don't comment, so we are only left with the people saying: "Explain like I am five." Then someone might come along and give an easier-to-read analysis of the findings, or they won't, and the post goes nowhere. Normally I would jump in if I saw that, but I am too busy to even think lately.
It's always going to be a balance between what certain people see as ideal. Nobody is ever going to agree 100% with each other. Some want just a community of like-minded people to discuss things with. Others want very specific scientific discussions surrounding a small set of topics. Others are new, and don't even know what they want. We are a large community now, and growing every day. It makes it a moving target. We try to keep in front of the moving target, and address things that start to annoy people; like modafinil, or depression regimens, or stack advice, etc. However, we can't just make a subreddit for every little compound/topic, just like we can't allow discussion of every compound or topic in /r/nootropics. There has to be a balance. I get that sometimes people make posts in those smaller subreddit, and get little response, and exceptions can be made in those cases. However, the only way those communities will grow, is if people post in them. /r/StackAdvice has gone pretty well so far. It can always use more people posting, but serves its purpose fairly well. /r/afinil serves its purpose well too. Even Longecity has different boards for different topics. That is just the nature of online forums. Reddit just does it a bit differently. People feel they are being sent off to a whole different place, rather than a different part of the same site.