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I always thought the smartest thing was keeping the frontpage unappealing enough to scare off anyone who hadn't already been told by a good friend it was worth checking out. It is sort of this pseudo invite-only filter.

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I would love to see a "defluffing" filter for reddit. Just remove low effort comments, memes and low effort content such as images and short videos under 3 minutes. I'd like it to be easier to locate the comments and articles that are worth reading.

> I'd like it to be easier to locate the comments and articles that are worth reading.

This is done by joining better subreddits, and/or adding them to multis.

Traffic would plummet. That's the vast majority of content on the front page.

Yeah, but it attracts the kind of horrifying people who like the front-page.

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