[sidcool]

True, although Reddit's programming subreddit been degrading in value. I have been trying since a year to revive it by posting regularly, mostly from Hacker News. I have earned Karma but the subreddit overall is on a downhill journey.

[freshhawk]

In my experience they all are, it's pretty much built in to the model (not just Reddit). If content is determined by voting and the community grows then you get regression to the mean. And "the mean" type of content is probably why the early adopters moved to something else in the first place.