[_delirium]

That's probably good advice businesswise, but as a user I sort of like that people aren't really thrown into subreddits. The fact that the smaller ones (not on the front page by default) only have people who went out of their way to find them keeps them a little higher quality imo, and keeps the influx of new users at a manageable pace.

[bmm6o]

I see where you're coming from, but "new users should have a worse experience than those who've cracked the code" is not a viable long term strategy.