"The issue is that since I came back to this site the voting feels like reddit."

And how long have you been on this site? Your score is 17 at the point of writing and your account was created 7 days ago.

So unless you had an earlier login id, (which is very possible, I am just asking) maybe you haven't been here long enough to make an informed judgment of how the voting system works? Just hang in there and use it for a while.

From the HN guidelines (at http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) , "If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.) "