Reddit's just increasingly making me hate people. r/atheism is bad, but so are most of the large subreddits. Even the relatively good r/askscience needs to be

Reddit's just increasingly making me hate people. r/atheism is bad, but so are most of the large subreddits. Even the relatively good r/askscience needs to be heavily moderated, with at least half the comments deleted. Two or three years ago when I first joined reddit, I was impressed by the level of discussion (granted, I came from 4chan). Even then, people were complaining about how bad it had gotten, but I just didn't see it. I just did a little experiment. Being generally disappointed with all but the top-level comments on the Kahn AMA [1], I decided to find two other popular AMAs from a couple years ago: [2] Roger Ebert, and [3] Steve Vai Ebert's was generally very good, with the level of discussion being decently high. Vai's, OTOH, had pretty marginal comments on it. Both were better than Khan's. Now, a sample size of two isn't much to go on, but it does suggest to me that my experience of degraded quality on reddit is at least partly due to an actual degradation, and not simply my changing tastes. [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ntsco/i_am_salman_khan_founder_of_khan_academyama/ http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ntsco/i_am_salman_khan... [2] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/a0zbk/roger_ebert_ask_him_anything/ http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/a0zbk/roger_ebert_ask_... [3] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9mrtp/i_am_a_grammy_awardwinning_career_musician_who/ http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9mrtp/i_am_a_grammy_aw...