I haven't been on there in a long time, but I remember it being really really hard to use, especially for newcomers. Tons of random crap, no ranking or voting s

I haven't been on there in a long time, but I remember it being really really hard to use, especially for newcomers. Tons of random crap, no ranking or voting system to bubble up things that are worth reading, lots of gore (and worse), inside jokes, spam. That's why people think of it as mysterious and inaccessible.