I left the site not because the whole site was toxic, but because it had gotten out of Reddit's control and they had no way to fix it. I got temp-banned for trying to be a freaking adult and make friends with someone who was harassing me. There is no oversight of the mods and it nowhere near a place for intelligent conversation in anything remotely political.

This article still seems unnecessarily harsh. Reddit didn't set out to be bad. Most of the moderators try to do a good job. The bad elements on the site are pervasive and can destroy a positive subreddit with a sideways glance. Let's not forget this is the place where a conspiracy theory was born that caused a pizza place to get labeled a pedophile ring causing a man to shoot up the place.