>An important distinction for Usenet and 4Chan is the lack of a front page. ... That's enough to set Reddit apart - the fact that an eyesore can be brought out into the shining light through activity alone. It incentivizes trolling and disruption far more than either 4chan or usenet ever could. It's almost a search engine for it. Well, no it is. And in the last few years, I've been confronted with things I've managed to entirely avoid for 50-odd years. Now that I think of it, that's not an entirely bad thing - but it is exhausting. >Control of Reddit is fully in the hands of the VCs now. Well, it was doomed to happen. But in more precise terms - the logo and the servers are in the hands of VC's. All the rest is both ephemeral and rather pissed off. I do wonder if Pao's placement at Reddit was a step up - or the equivalent of being sent as the Czar's representative to Siberia.