[Crito]

Reddit has subreddits dedicated to the foulest stuff that you'll ever occasionally see on 4chan. That has historically included borderline illegal content, with literally illegal content mixed in.

Reddit's reputation of being better than 4chan is entirely undeserved.

[okasaki]

>Reddit's reputation of being better than 4chan is entirely undeserved.

As someone with extensive experience with both... it is entirely deserved.

[wingerlang]

Why are people comparing reddit and 4chan anyway? They are two completely different sites.

[raarts]

I don't think comparing means what you think it means.

No use comparing things that are the same.

[anon4]

Both are interest-separated discussion boards. Reddit bills itself as more news-oriented, but quite often it serves as a regular threaded forum where the first post sets the context.

After reddit got big, we started seeing (well, started speculating that we're seeing) a lot of people come to 4chan after initially cutting their internet discussion teeth on reddit. There were speculations of a secret irc cabal of redditors, who collude to drive threads offtopic and in general mould board culture to be more reddit-like. To this day I'm not sure if those allegations were insubstantiated. We did have several prominent spammers who comandeered fleets of hundreds of proxies and spammed threads they didn't like with random-generated posts. These were obviously not redditors, but given there are people who care enough and have free time enough... In short, 4chan is a magical place.

[austenallred]

I used it as an apparently flawed comparison, assuming HN was more familiar with Reddit than 4chan.