XtianThrowaway

Please make this a node package at some point.

It is just amazing that you can write this post after having created, essentially, a native Chrome application.

Your head is filled with Google jingoism tailored to almost fit the ideals you're trying to spout, but you failed to create an open application.

You are hitting so many stereotypes on the "kids these days" wagon you might as well be shaking your cane. You're whining, plain and simple.

I might as well complete the circle; "Shut up, gramps, you don't understand me!" Now the conversation is truly tiresome.

Meh. It's getting plenty of attention. If someone was wounded by that, they should realize that maybe their feelings aren't actually that important.

You can't expect good communication to occur when you restrict it as you suggest. His comment wasn't anywhere near as disparaging as it can get.

The problem reddit faces is one of community identity and management of that identity, which manifests itself, basically, in never-ending moderator drama.

I'm commenting because I have some experience with the Christian archipelago of subreddits and because I've watched conservative elements of Christianity try to find a reddit home in several different stages. (Catacombs, TheArk...)

I don't think it is necessarily accurate to say that reddit is attempting to be a neutral place, overall, as I think it's rather impossible for a community to be a wholly neutral place (and question the existence of such a thing anyway).

What is attempted instead is the creation of policy that allows for any community to set its own parameters and assumptions for discussion while still allowing for the creation of a policy of anonymous and uncensored participation. There really isn't any point to having an Internet forum without attempting these, and as soon as one wishes to depart from these goals they're no longer really in tune with reddit.

> They just believe there's some value in having a forum on reddit controlled by favorable forces even if that forum has the problems I listed.

Which is an interesting statement about territory within a larger community, as well as a problem as old as discourse itself.

I think Alexis missed your point entirely, instead making a point about personal frontpages.

But I can't see it as a possibility for reddit to attempt to attract a different userbase or reddit administrators to try to neutralize reddit culture.

All they can really do is try is create tools for small communities to set their own culture, and I think that's where you're spot on; it's currently not possible to use reddit as a platform for an arbitrary community of people because reddit is already a large community.

The problem, though, is that there are no arbitrary communities.