Table Of Content
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reddit.com/r/scifi
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My recent experience on r/scifi
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About r/scifi - Community & Members
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How to access r/scifi?
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Moderators of r/scifi
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Why should you follow r/scifi?
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Community Engagement
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Navigation
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Reddit Gold
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Filter by flair
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Important rules you must know before joining r/scifi?
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Design
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Content
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Conclusion
reddit.com/r/scifi
In the past decade, social media platforms such as Reddit have become an important part of people's communication. Platforms like Reddit allow users to share their thoughts and interact with others in a community. This shift in content consumption has seen people asking questions and finding results within minutes or seconds.
Reddit is a great platform for gauging people's opinions. You're likely to find a thread about an issue on a subreddit, and there are over 3 billion visits per month. This platform has something right - people with like-minded thinking, interest, and passion are part of the micro-community known as the subreddit. There are many subreddits that have a decent size but don't always get active.
Today we're going to be reviewing one of the oldest yet lesser-known subreddits called r/scifi. Just by the name, you can understand that this page is for science fiction and speculative fiction fans. Whether you're into movies, books, or TV Shows, you'll find resonating content on this subreddit.
My recent experience on r/scifi
I had a recent experience on r/scifi that I found fascinating. The user pointed out how there was a TV series called "Nowhere Man" in 1995 which was a combination of "The Prisoner," "The Fugitive," and "The X-Files." It was canceled just after one season because it was way ahead of its time. Now when I think about it, there have been various titles that are loved by people today but didn't seem to catch attention at the time of their release.
About r/scifi - Community & Members
The community on r/scifi is described as great for finding content related to science and speculative fiction. Out of 1.6 million members, only a small number are currently online, but the subreddit has been around since 2008. Despite its popularity, r/scifi hasn't been able to gain a lot of attention and has mostly remained average.
Although not everyone who appreciates science fiction enjoys books, there is a lot of great material to be found on r/scifi. If youâre into books such as Asimov, Bradbury, Clarke, Dick, Heinlein and other science fiction authors, youâll enjoy the community here. Even if you donât typically read books, r/scifi will feel like a home to you with all the amazing fantasy shows and video games.
How to access r/scifi?
If you're already a Reddit member, you can type "r/scifi" in your search bar and join the subreddit. However, if you're new to the platform, you'll need to create an account and confirm your email address. Once you do so, you'll be able to follow subreddits, comment on posts, and even post anything on any of the subreddits. I'd also recommend you download the Reddit app because that will provide you a comprehensive browsing experience.
Moderators of r/scifi
I was a little sad to see that this amazing subreddit didn't have much engagement as compared to the other 1 million ones. Sure, 1 million isn't a small number and thus a single moderator cannot handle everything. At the time of writing this review, there were seven moderators on this subreddit - illuminatedwax, qgyh2, anutensil, kerrianneta, Warlizard, edify, and davidreiss666.
Why should you follow r/scifi?
More than one hundred posts are updated each day, but the engagement level is low. On average, a single post receives about 30-50 upvotes. The top post on any given day receives between 300-500 upvotes. And that's not a good sign?because it shows how passive a particular community is. Compared to other active subreddits such as r/videos and r/MovieDetails, you suddenly start to feel bad about this one. Even the content itself isn't something that would catch many people's eyes, and so content-wise, it's on average decent.
Community Engagement
r/scifi is not an especially active community. Although it has over a million members, only 300-500 of them are actually active at any given time, which is 90% less than what we saw on r/MovieDetails. So, if you post content on this subreddit, chances are that you might not even get a single response to your post. However, if it's your lucky day, you can expect to get between 200-300 upvotes and feel like you've achieved something pretty significant in terms of this subreddit.
Navigation
Browsing and navigation on any subreddit is easy. Sure, the video-based pages take a little time to get going, r/scifi is mostly image-based, so there are no issues at all. You can browse across various categories, use sorting function, read rules using the drop-down section towards the right - Everything works well. I guess that's because only a handful of users are active in real-time so the server isn't overloaded.
Reddit Gold
The Reddit community for science fiction and fantasy is really generous when it comes to giving out gold. I browsed through the top content of the month and only found 8-10 golds, which is one of the worst Reddit gold tallies I've seen on the pages I've reviewed so far. The top five upvoted posts didn't have any golds, which shows that users are not so generous on this subreddit.
Filter by flair
Unlike r/Videos and r/MovieDetails where you have an in-depth ?Filter by Flair? option to help sort the content, r/scifi just has ?See Mod Comment? so you can stay up-to-date with announcements, changes, and other important posts from the moderators. I can't really call this a turnoff factor since the content itself is not too specific. But it would be great if the mods would bifurcate the posts based on books, shows, movies, and pure fantasy.
Important rules you must know before joining r/scifi?
Many people don't think there are any rules that you must adhere to when you join the r/scifi community. And that's okay, because most people post content that is relevant to the subreddit.
Design
This subreddit has a simple design. You can find the Saturn/spaceship vector commonly used to describe the scifi genre towards the right, and under that you have the ?Join? button and under that, you have ?Create a Post? section. In this section, you can upload anything related to the thread. There are four options - ?Hot?, ?New?, ?Top?, and ?Hide/Report?.
To the right you'll find a small community bio followed by the subreddit's cake day. Beneath that is advertisements. There are two main ads, one is a square banner and the other is a skyscraper ad. That's about it for the design and interface.
Content
This subreddit is full of content that is popular with its users. The most popular posts are the ones that get a lot of upvotes.
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I am applying for US citizenship to fight and oppose the Trump administration, with over 15,700 upvotes!
Carrie Fisher died at 60 today - popular news source Reddit has already upvoted the story with over 15,700 votes.
Nathan Fillion just posted this picture and said he would break the internet - 14400 upvotes
Karl Urban recently confirmed that a sequel to the popular "Dredd" film is indeed in development. This news received a lot of support from 13,900 people who upvoted it on Reddit.
The five most popular posts of 2020 will be those that are highly upvoted.
on Reddit prove it!
Netflix's "The Witcher" dethroned "The Mandalorian" as the biggest TV series in the world - 5,000 upvotes on Reddit prove it!
on Reddit
Space Sniper by Lars Sowing is a stunning art piece that's received 2,700 upvotes on Reddit.
Tremors turns 30, the perfect B movie creature feature ever made - it has received 2,600 upvotes on Reddit.
The Fox show "The Orville" has been renewed for a third season. This show received 2,600 upvotes on reddit.
The Matrix 4 is officially a go with Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Lana Wachowski receiving over two thousand upvotes.
Conclusion
If you're a fan of science fiction and fantasy, you'll find something valuable on the platform every day. However, it's not enough to keep you hooked throughout the day. The community isn't as active compared to the other science and fiction-based subreddits, but you can be the voice of change, if you want. Overall, this subreddit is average at best whose growth has stalled in recent years.
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