I was a pretty early reddit user, so I got to see what it was like in the very beginning. It was for a while the number 1 site that I would hit. The news stories were great and interesting, the discussion was mostly civil and intelligent, and they had great programming articles that I really learned a lot from. Then it got popular. Everyone started using it, not just hackers. My mother-in-law started using it. Nothing against my mother-in-law. I love her and she is one of my favorite people in the world, but I don't think she is interested in programming articles. The point is it became famous to the majority. For reddit this was great. It allowed them to make money, keep jobs doing what they love, and have fun. There are a lot of comments that end the story there. Simply saying that reddit was once good now it's bad and I've moved on to something else blah blah blah... Ok so reddit isn't what it used to be. It has more noise, and the quality has dropped. Big deal. Reddit gives you the tools you need to filter out most of the noise with sub-reddits. The trick is you have to find the right sub-reddits to watch. The real gems are the sub-reddits that have