[fragsworth]

> no one but a small vocal minority in a few places on reddit

Here is a front-page /r/news post about Ellen Pao: https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/3a85no/ellen_pao_must...

Read the comments. This is not a "small vocal minority". It's pretty much the entire fucking user base.

[sanswork]

A vocal minority doesn't become a majority because they flood a thread about their current hate target.

[wvenable]

I think you vastly misunderstand the size of reddit's userbase. Furthermore, it's been my experience that a small vocal minority produce significantly more content than the average user. And the single largest group of people with enough time to post all the time are children.