this was very emotional article. very sad indeed. isnt it weird that all front page articles on reddit are overtly emotional? it seems that plain groundbreaking research papers will never make it to the frontpage...
You realize that reddit is one of the most visited sites on the Internet now, right?
It's not the little lisp-hackers, YC-funded, nerd-centric community that it started as, and it will never be that again.
19M uniques tends to alter things.
Your reddit experience is as good as the sub-reddits you follow.
Subscribe to sub-reddits of your interest and you will only see stories from those sub-reddits on your front page. Stick with the default options and you only see the top stories from default selected sub-reddits.
In a way its like twitter and facebook, the quality of tweets and wall posts you will see are only as good as the people you decide to follow.