Plenty of individual subreddits ban memes and pics for precisely this reason, because there is a broad recognition that they will tend to swamp more in-depth co

Plenty of individual subreddits ban memes and pics for precisely this reason, because there is a broad recognition that they will tend to swamp more in-depth content. The nice thing about Reddit is that if you want some low-brow content, you can get that, too: users can easily customize what they see by selecting different subreddits, relative to Facebook.