I totally believe it. It's a systemic problem that outfits like /r/Askscience attempt to CSS away but then you end up with bullshit like the /r/politics posse arguing that Mother Jones is a spam hive. The basic problem is that Reddit was designed as a virulence engine and any attempt to tune it to community runs directly contrary to its core design. It's like trying to make a speedboat into a cargo hauler or a 747 into a pylon racer. Worse, from the top down they always institute the changes needed three years ago. I was talking about community stuff back before Reddit Gifts was a year old - top level shit. No one was interested. It would have been a double opt-in plugin that would have been invisible to anyone who didn't wanna play and there was straight crickets from the powers-that-be. Now? Now, in the year 2017, Reddit is discovering Facebook, long after everyone under 40 has given it up for Instagram and Snapchat.