To be honest, your issue number one is basically how I think the site is supposed to work in the first place. It didn't take very long (even before the Digg inf

To be honest, your issue number one is basically how I think the site is supposed to work in the first place. It didn't take very long (even before the Digg influx) for the default subreddits to become just a sea of people where any discussions are both hard to have and difficult to read. However, the site gets infinitely better if you forego any of the default subreddits and you take the time to seek out all your areas of interest, and you cultivate a set of subreddits where the dialog matches your personal style and preferences. I think it's not a bad thing if the community segments, especially if a large portion of the overall community is not people you're interested in interacting with anyway... I think Reddit has a huge longevity advantage over sites like the aforementioned Digg exactly because of the subreddits. You can consume as much or as little of the community as you want to and carve out an experience that suits your own tastes. With Digg, you either accepted the community as a whole, or you left...