Fair point - building a community is easier if you've got a bunch of community's that are effectively neighbors.
The other thing I just realized is that the smaller subreddits benefit from elitism - as ugly as that sounds. i.e. /r/pics is driven by raw masses, while /r/turnips would likely be driven by a small group of die-hards.
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I think it's both. Your turnip site instantly becomes the hippest turnip site due to it's location on Reddit.
Fair point - building a community is easier if you've got a bunch of community's that are effectively neighbors.
The other thing I just realized is that the smaller subreddits benefit from elitism - as ugly as that sounds. i.e. /r/pics is driven by raw masses, while /r/turnips would likely be driven by a small group of die-hards.