"one quick downvote a few seconds after a post could derail any conversation"

Most of them prefer it that way, however. Gives them a sense of power.

SRS helped destroy Reddit, not save it.

"Can't we just agree reddit is a failed site and move on?"

Is it failed, or just assimilated by one of the special interest groups that rule our society (hiveminding basement-dwelling neckbeards)?

Monarchist, nationalist, communitarian, traditionalist.

Evil has always walked the earth, but it doesn't always come at the same level of quantity and quality.

Things to think about, before you become a self-help section over there :)

Human resentment has always been with us. If we as a society do not fight it, we get more of it.

Reddit has become infested with the angry loser crowd.

It used to be the going-somewhere people.

As individuals, perhaps.

As a nation? No -- and we all benefit from that.

The agenda of the right has always been hierarchy and Social Darwinism as means of conserving culture and values. They just can't say that since the left is so powerful these days.

Whether or not any of this is moot is another valid issue. Some say privacy is dead, and from a technological perspective, I tend to agree. People aren't going to stop using cell phones, Facebook, the internet and RFID-equipment shopping just because of well-founded paranoia.

What's next?