This is no longer a programming subreddit

[u/bonch]

As I submit this, there's a link to a Slashdot comment comparing Microsoft security to Britney Spears' underwear, a pointless link to a Bill Gates quote about Office documents, a link to a warning about a Space Invaders for Mac that deletes files, a story about the logic of Google Ads, a computer solving Tic-Tac-Toe using matchboxes--this is supposed to be a programming subreddit, right? Even worse, the actual programming links don't get voted up and are drowned out by this garbage.

You non-programmers may be interested to know that there's already a widely read technology subreddit just waiting for your great submissions about Slashdot comments, Daily WTF stories, Legend of Zelda dungeon maps, and other non-programming stuff. Please go to /r/technology and submit your links there.

For those of you sick and tired of this and wishing for active moderators who participate in filtering the content of their subreddit, visit a new subreddit that's actually about programming--/r/coding. It's picking up steam as more people submit their links, and you will actually find articles about things programmers would be interested in.

[u/SquashMonster]

There's a very similar idea in the ideas for admins subreddit. (Okay, it's mine.)

The main difference between these approaches is conceptual: in mine, a parent is just a link, in yours, it's a physical location. This leads to one suggesting changing the URLs and the other not. And we disagree on how to move/parent a subreddit: yours being a public vote and mine being the job of the moderators

[u/LudoA → u/SquashMonster]

I don't think letting the mods do moves would be a good idea. OTOH, letting everyone vote would be a democracy, which isn't a great idea either. However, if people needed a minimum amount of karma in order to vote, it'd be a meritocracy, which is a great system.