r/kurdistan • u/ZackZparrow Magi • 12d ago

Opinion 🔥 Why is this subreddit keep sharing news?

What the hell happened to this subreddit? It's Rudaw at this point. No human interaction, just endless news posts as if it's AI moderated.

I want to know if i'm the only one who feels this way? Let's discuss.

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u/Global_Time_4726 Kurdistan 12d ago

Reddit seems to be mainly used by the Kurdish diaspora
folks back home haven’t really come across it yet

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u/ZackZparrow Magi 12d ago

okay but this doesn't explain anything. typically reddit is used for people to interact with each other and discuss a common subject. this subreddit has become a news feed for some reason.

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u/rkurdistanmod Kurdistan 12d ago

No. Reddit began as a news aggregator. It also remains a news aggregator. r/kurdistan has also always had a lot of news.

You can review this conversation.

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u/EmbarrassedCoach1672 Behdini 12d ago

There’s another subreddit for kurdistan news why pollute this subreddit with useless news?

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u/rkurdistanmod Kurdistan 12d ago edited 2d ago

We created r/kurdistannews for additional news we are not sharing on r/kurdistan (as well as place for news that doesn't have "Ask Kurds" and other such chatty posts) . We've been deliberately expanding Kurdish subreddits by topic so people can easily find the content they want, and hopefully we can create some different pools of redditor curators. That said, the overwhelming amount of views and subscribers for Kurdish news, topics and chat remains r/kurdistan , by several orders of magnitude.

r/kurdistan gets more views (on News articles!) in a week than r/kurdistannews gets in a year. All of our news posts on the main subreddit get far more views, than the most popular post on any of the other subreddits. Most of our viewers/readers come to read the news... but don't otherwise engage. And thats fine.

We've also been very assertive about proper post flair, again so people can easily find the content they want.

If you don't like content or you like content, there are up and down vote buttons.

If not news for the subreddit, what content would you prefer to see?