I've been here for 4 years (my profile says 2 or 3.. not sure, I lurked for a while). What you have to understand is that reddit at one point did have a concentrated community of intelligent people.. and that's hard to come by on the internet. When I first got here, one of the "unwritten rules" was "tell smart people about reddit, tell stupid people about digg".

That community has changed.. whether for good or bad, some of us still miss the way it used to be. Some people will say this golden age I speak of never existed.. but I just think they weren't here long enough. I know there's some people who have been here longer than me who would agree.

But that's neither here nor there. I, for one, am eager to see what reddit will become.

Anyway, I'm just trying to give you a sense of why you will see people like purgueflantar hating all over the place.