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[–]Warlizardಠ_ಠ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Jesus, Dawkins was on the front page even back then?

[–]Ninwa 1 point2 points  (2 children)

This might be an example of nostalgia-busting. There are people who seem to think that reddit in the past was full of insightful and intellectual conversation. While it's true to an extent, there has always been a potpourri of silly shit as well.

[–]Mitch_CAN 0 points1 point  (1 child)

but has it degraded overall or not? i'm fairly new

[–]Ninwa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not really, no. The main page is diluted, sure, but I think reddit is an amazing website with an incredible diversity amongst it's subreddits. I think it has changed for the better, rather than for the worse. If there was some sort of law that stated the more popular something is, the stupider it gets, call it "McHipsters Law," then reddit has the perfect formula to combat it. Anytime a subreddit becomes to saturated you can simply create a more niche subreddit within that category.

Yes, the main reddit is saturated and largely garbage, but that's why we have thousands of subreddits to subscribe to, each of which are all great in their own ways.

[–]HDTV_FTW[🍰] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I got so engaged in reading the titles I tried to click on one of the stories before realizing my mistake.

[–]LupeFiascoStoleMyHat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Far out, they didn't even have working hyperlinks back in 2005. You had to memorize the submission title, and go type it into the dogpile search engine.

[–]Jpetrov0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone else try and click the blue links out of habit?
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