[markx2]

I joined /r/gamedeals as a mod when the subscriber count was ~25k I left when I think it was ~700k That's a pretty good increase, yet despite the huge increase in numbers this was not reflected in upvotes and comment numbers.

https://old.reddit.com/r/GameDeals/top/

There will be multiple reasons why this happened but changing to this new metric - engagement - makes sense.

At one point the sub mods were asked by the reddit admins if we wanted to be in the default selection for new users and we declined. It will be interesting to see how defaults are now offered given that I understand the default was based on subscriber numbers.