I realized I was getting too paranoid about Reddit when I started wondering if r/GameofTrolls (and subsequent iterations - don't bother trying to click into them, they're all private or banned, but it's a troll-reddit ring, ironic because it appears based wholly within reddit - hence the subreddits) was really just an inside game set up by the admins in order to give people who had been on reddit for 2+ years something to do or be entertained by once the initial "OMG REDDIT IS SHINY AND GREAT" had worn off. There's so much interior reddit drama and so little need for any of it that I began wondering how manufactured it was and if that was really what was bringing people back to the site over and over, since the quality of submissions and links is pretty shitty unless you're diligent about picking up & dropping the right subreddits.