It depends on what reddit is trying to be. If it wants to be anything goes like 4chan, then it's funny and not a thing to care about. But reddit has always be

It depends on what reddit is trying to be. If it wants to be anything goes like 4chan, then it's funny and not a thing to care about. But reddit has always been trying to be more palatable and have better signal:noise than that style. Reddit is a pretend "raw and unfiltered" for users used to facebook, but very much in a safe-for-tv "dangerous" way. They want to be the channel surfing portal for the internet, and that means curbing the actual rough-edges. And Steve, in the process of trying to get his userbase to straiten up, fly right, and be good unpaid content farm worker bees, can't maintain his own composure.