It's already growing exponentially. Unsubscribing from the larger subreddits solves most of the issues you address. The fact is, there is a preponderance of p

It's already growing exponentially. Unsubscribing from the larger subreddits solves most of the issues you address. The fact is, there is a preponderance of pictures, videos, and gaming news because that's what the majority of users want to see. You may not like it, but that hardly means it's dying. Facebook isn't limited to the Ivy League anymore, and there's a ton of crap on it. Yet it seems to be doing alright. Reddit is no longer a small, early adopter community. Censorship of the form you seem to propose, that is, getting rid of the stuff you don't like, would be suicidal. They're growing because more and more people are finding things they like on it. Seriously though, subreddits. You'd find a huge difference in the level of discourse in any of the following: http://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/ http://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/ http://www.reddit.com/r/DepthHub/ http://www.reddit.com/r/DepthHub/ http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/ http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/ http://www.reddit.com/r/coding/ http://www.reddit.com/r/coding/ There's dozens more. Yes, pics, funny, gaming, atheism, politics, wtf, worldnews, and a bunch of the other hotbeds of stupidity get the lion's share of the traffic, but there's still tons of great content on reddit. There's far more great content on reddit than HN, simply by virtue of size and diversity. You just have to look for it.