[visakanv]

Oh, fair enough. I think that's a function of large audiences– the larger an audience gets, the more it allows puns, jokes, etc to rise to the top– and the more incentive there is to be thoughtlessly controversial, and the more incentive there is for advertising and spam.

The challenge to maintain standards when an audience grows is really hard. There are some subreddits that try, but it seems like a universal problem (as far as I can tell.)

[Qwertious]

I suspect it goes deeper than that - one thing I've noticed is that the Dwarf Fortress community has much more depth than the TF2 community. I suspect that this is due to TF2's ease of consumption in comparison to Dwarf fortress, or rather Dwarf Fortress's high barrier to entry in comparison to TF2.