The point of the article is to argue that all sites like this (HN, Reddit) will devolve into 4chan. The fact that it has a large user base does not make up for

The point of the article is to argue that all sites like this (HN, Reddit) will devolve into 4chan. The fact that it has a large user base does not make up for the fact that it's full of banal memes, porn, racism, and idiocy.