/r/smashbros State of the Sub - August 2015 - Let's discuss how to make the subreddit a better place!

If you only care about 1 game there are game specific subreddits like /r/ssbm.

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This to me is like when that Microsoft guy around the time of the XBox One reveal said that if you wanted to play games offline, you could buy a 360. You basically just told me to go somewhere else even though this sub does have content that I like that isn't necessarily allowed on /r/ssbm (and I assume this is true of other games and their respective game-specific subs too). Do you really think the vast majority of this sub loves seeing all the content for every game and clicks through every post regardless of their flair?

10/16 is garbo. If we assume this is a relatively ordinary sample that means every time I check the front page I've got half a dozen extra posts to needlessly click on just in case I'm interested.

Moderating secondary flair isn't the only option. There are other options too, like requiring titles to be clear as to their content, or not changing the current system.

You very much need to elaborate on the benefits of a different system to sell people, because two of your three defenses:

Casual players can filter out competitive posts.
Can filter out the "dumb" questions from /new

Are completely contradicted by one of your supposed cons of the current system:

Most people don't even filter by flair at all or even know it's possible. Comparing the two systems of flair by passive use only, the new system is way more useful.

Questions are inherently obvious by their titles, there's no need to flair those. Tweets are inherently obvious by their URLs, no need to flair those. Guides are almost always made clear in their titles because the guide-makers want to be clear what they've done, no need to flair those. The new system has needless ambiguity all its own. What do I flair a tournament announcement? eSports, I guess, even if it's a grassroots event in Pittsburgh? Do I flair a combo video that's put out by TSM and has ads for the organization and interview clips in it eSports or gameplay? Do I flair the shitpost that's currently the top post on this subreddit Art or Gameplay?

tl;dr I'm extremely not sold and I don't think you've presented anything resembling a good argument for switching.

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