What I mean is someone sets up a new community, blasts it with a bunch of content to get things started, or sets up a new community bot that makes 20 posts and every other post in my feed is that community. Usually with 1 or 2 votes each and no comments. No matter what way I sort I see this.

I have zero issues with people getting things going within their space, and it’s not a knock against new communities that don’t want to be empty when people stumble across them.

It’s a complaint about the algorithm flooding my feed with so much content from one place that I’ve unfortunately blocked communities over this that I otherwise would have continued to run across and maybe engaged with in the future.

I’m not sure if your first X results should all be unique communities or putting some sort of engagement threshold in place before they show up in the top X posts or something. I don’t really have a perfect answer but to me this is a flaw in the system.

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[–] The_Picard_Maneuver 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I remember when reddit had to implement something similar leading up to the 2016 election, because the entire front page was spam from "the donald* or a few vocal left-wing subs, and it was putting everyone off.

The solution was pretty much what you described.

[–] WontonSoup 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even a limit of posts per community would be great. 2-3 from each community max in the first 100 would even be awesome. It would also force a lot of lesser known communities into peoples top posts and help growth in them.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver 7 points 1 year ago

I agree. The turnover of the front page already seems configured to be rapid, so during the less active times of the day, this problem with flooding happens more.

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