[mintplant]

There are thousands of subreddits, sure, but still you end up with an identifiable overarching "reddit" culture. There are subreddits that don't share this, due to strong moderation, small size, or niche/polarizing subject matter. But in most subreddits, mentioning a broken limb, for example, will inevitably generate a low-effort allusion to a certain gross story that is prominent in the collective memory of the site. A positive reference to feminism will likely spur someone to try to start a flame war. Even if you unsubscribe from the defaults, the site-wide zeitgeist stills filter down and influences conversations across individual sub-communities.

[fapjacks]

Maybe, but isn't that more generally culture's fault and not Reddit's fault?

[bmm6o]

A site can do something about its users' behavior more easily than they can do something about the larger culture.

[mintplant]

Is it just me or are seemingly random comments getting downvoted heavily as of late? I don't see anything particularly wrong with this one.

[fapjacks]

I have noticed and I agree. HN is at the top of the list of sites I wish I had log data for. It would be a very interesting week of hacking looking for trends.

[pavel_lishin]

I hope you're right, because so far it looks like Voten doesn't have any community moderators at all.

[aphextron]

This is pretty much dead on why I avoid reddit