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Re:This Is the Modern Manhunt: The FBI, the Hive Mind and th... by unimpressive on Saturday April 20, 2013 @01:24AM (#5580387)
>Oh, and the front page of Reddit is still a worse source of news than the front page of the NYT.

I would argue that Reddit is no longer a news site. Go compare the front page of Reddit to the front page of Digg. You'll instantly see the difference. My current hypothesis is that as a community becomes more insular the quality goes down. Though obviously if there is a theme for the discussion board then veering off topic is bad.

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Re:This Is the Modern Manhunt: The FBI, the Hive Mind and th... by vy8vWJlco on Saturday April 20, 2013 @02:57AM (#5580611)
Now compare both of those to the front page of HN. My current theory is that as the community becomes more popular, the technical content goes down and the social thought-pieces and popular references go up.
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Re:This Is the Modern Manhunt: The FBI, the Hive Mind and th... by nwzpaperman on Saturday April 20, 2013 @01:34AM (#5580420)
Reddit became just another aggregator. Flooded with legacy media content and meme photos with a pinch of porn and a junk commenting system. All of the peer generated content is lost in the sea of irrelevance.
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Re:This Is the Modern Manhunt: The FBI, the Hive Mind and th... by rdl on Saturday April 20, 2013 @01:39AM (#5580435)
Subreddits seem strongly resistant to this, but maybe that doesn't help the un-logged-in or new user.

I read r/gundeals, r/til, and r/iama. None of those have crappy external links. There are the obnoxious memes within comments, though.

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