You start with “Personally, I would prefer subreddits,” but then you describe nothing that would be easier or better in a subreddit than it would be in /r/discussion/ with a tag. Well, there is one exception to what I just said: subreddits are easier for a user to understand if the user is impatient with the considerations behind the design of software and the design of online conversations.
But there are very strong reasons why some of us advocate tags—and why tags have increased in use—even though the resulting software is more difficult to understand than older designs were, so I would ask you to make an effort to understand the solution proposed by Tricycle.
Note that I am not affiliated with Tricycle. I have never even had a conversation or a correspondence with anyone at Tricycle.
Now that I think about it, I agree with you. I think in the above post I had in mind that subreddits would allow more “cohesiveness” or a greater “sense of community” among its participants. But perhaps that is nonsense or not so important.
However, which “very strong reasons” did you have in mind? I can think of only two:
1) If there were multiple subreddits, often a post might not fit squarely in a single one.
2) People might tag their posts in subreddits anyways, in which case why have subreddits?
You start with “Personally, I would prefer subreddits,” but then you describe nothing that would be easier or better in a subreddit than it would be in /r/discussion/ with a tag. Well, there is one exception to what I just said: subreddits are easier for a user to understand if the user is impatient with the considerations behind the design of software and the design of online conversations.
But there are very strong reasons why some of us advocate tags—and why tags have increased in use—even though the resulting software is more difficult to understand than older designs were, so I would ask you to make an effort to understand the solution proposed by Tricycle.
Note that I am not affiliated with Tricycle. I have never even had a conversation or a correspondence with anyone at Tricycle.
Now that I think about it, I agree with you. I think in the above post I had in mind that subreddits would allow more “cohesiveness” or a greater “sense of community” among its participants. But perhaps that is nonsense or not so important.
However, which “very strong reasons” did you have in mind? I can think of only two:
1) If there were multiple subreddits, often a post might not fit squarely in a single one.
2) People might tag their posts in subreddits anyways, in which case why have subreddits?
I consider your (1) a pretty strong reason.
I have a draft of a post that gives a couple more reasons. Will you review it before I publish it?
Certainly. Also, I amended my original post to make it clear that I now support tags over subreddits.