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A downvote because I bashed a YC-funded company? Look, I stopped reading Reddit for the reasons outlined above, and I am sure others left for similar reasons. If you don't smoke pot or don't think pot smoking is a good idea, didn't vote for Obama, and don't believe the government can solve all of our problems, you simply aren't welcomed there.
This is lovely, considering that Reddit has, for years, been nothing more than a sounding board for a group of nasty, dishonest, pseudo-Marxist potheads. Take a look at /r/politics and you will see nothing but Obama-worship, profit-hating and Republican-bashing. On /r/programming, the subreddit I would visited the most, you will find plenty of mediocre programmers who do nothing but attack the work of others, especially when that work is done in a "boring" language like Java or C++, rather than producing anything of value themselves.
It is hard to see what value Reddit can provide to anyone outside of its current, very narrow demographic, and I haven't missed it much since leaving it last year.