Is reddit crap

Answer 1

I think Reddit is a wonderful site. If you're talking about the subreddit r/Atheism in particular there are many who dislike it but it's important to understand why. The more participants an open forum like a subreddit gets, the more a submission needs to have broad and easy appeal to rise to the top. r/Atheism currently has 1,619,588 readers so this trend is very powerful there.

The result is that the front page (the most upvoted comments) is comprised almost entirely of very simple, quickly digestible yet still stirring subject matter because those types of submissions will garner the most quick upvotes from casual browsers. Unfortunately the easiest way to do this is with relateable jokes and in a community whose entire defining feature is it's disagreement with organized religion, religion (most often Christianity as most redditors are American) is always the butt of these jokes. So the resulting lack of depth and visceral nature of the subreddit cause most Christians and many atheists to find it distasteful.

So, while r/Atheism may indeed be crap it is not because of atheism but, rather, a natural occurence resulting for the number of participants (we see identical trends in any so populated forum).

If you want the Reddit experience, but more polished, try one of the similar but smaller subreddits such as r/Skeptic, r/Humanism, or r/FreeThought