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Good moderators and less tolerance of abusive behavior overall have made a big difference. People sometimes like to criticize the “old Reddit,” or their impression of the current Reddit based on second-hand reports, without experiencing it in its current state for themselves.

I’m by no means saying Reddit is perfect, or even as good as it should be. But as an occasional user, I find the experience overall helpful and positive.

My biggest complaint is that there’s a fair amount of silliness that you have to filter out (although, to be honest, some of that is part of the fun sometimes). And I couldn’t care less about some of the relationship advice threads and other personal drama reveals. I hide or block those most of the time. And, more and more, there are posts that seem to be bot-generated — but the community tends to sniff those out and alert others to ignore them.

I also tend to stick to hobby groups most of the time, and when I do scan the political threads, most of them reflect a progressive viewpoint. (But I don’t visit the conservative forums, and right-wingers usually don’t get much traction in the mainstream news and politics subgroups.)