content: I guess it all depends on who it encourages to join. Part of the problem is the venture capital people probably want to see as much growth as possible, and that level of growth probably affects their investment. I think the problem with Reddit is it tried to cater to the lowest common denominator to encourage that rampant growth, so in the end you'd have like, half a page worth of jokes and on articles about fairly serious political issues. Their assumption probably was anybody wanting to get away from that could just go to smaller subreddits, and reap the benefits of idiot subsidies. So if this is actually what's going on, the way communities get ruined might just be an inherent issue with the way we're trying to build them.