And it is noticeable in the constant decrease in quality of both submissions and comments. Just compare the scribb.ly discussion here to the one on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/d8ph4/building_...

Granted, one can circumvent a lot of nonsense on reddit by carefully selecting and managing subreddit subscriptions but in the end I find myself unsubscribing from more and more reddits over time.