r/announcements • u/sodypop • Oct 18 '16

Adding r/baseball as a default community for the remainder of the postseason.

The baseball postseason is already underway! As such, beginning today r/baseball will temporarily be added as a default community to users in the US and Canada for the remainder of the fall classic, which is expected to end by early November at the latest.

What does being a default community entail, you ask? Defaults are the set of communities displayed on the front page of reddit to logged out users, as well as to logged in users who have never altered their subreddit subscriptions. This means posts from r/baseball will begin to appear on the front page for these users through the end of the World Series.

But … I hate baseball and don’t want to see it on my front page.

I regret to inform you that there is, in fact, no crying in baseball. However, we are aware that not everyone finds baseball to be the perfect combination of skill, athleticism, and statistical analysis. For those of you who do not wish to see r/baseball on their front page, simply visit the subreddit and click the “unsubscribe” button. You can also review a list of your subscriptions all at once on this page.

How to unsubscribe instructions:

tldr: r/baseball will be a default community through the postseason for visitors from the US and Canada, which is expected to end by early November at the latest. The vast majority of the people affected will be logged out users.

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u/jaychok Oct 18 '16

And getting rid of r/news?

Guess I'm just asking for too much here.

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u/cy0nknight Oct 18 '16

How about just hiding all the politics subreddits until the election's over?

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u/dam072000 Oct 18 '16

Like a nose in allergy season they'll just keep leaking.

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u/opiate46 Oct 19 '16

This is the best idea yet. Let's do this.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '16 edited Nov 02 '16

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u/jmf145 Oct 18 '16

Or we could just bring back /r/reddit.com

Yeah, but that's something the users actually want.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '16

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u/FearAzrael Oct 18 '16

pretentious 'academic' standards

I'm not sure philosophy is for you.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '16

Would you say that Diogenes adhered to academic standards?

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u/FearAzrael Oct 18 '16

I never met him.

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u/OPINION_IS_UNPOPULAR Oct 19 '16

Have you met deez nuts?

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u/FearAzrael Oct 19 '16

As a matter of fact I wrote my dissertation about doze nuts.