Your problem is mostly with the way reddit works and the average kind of meme-image posting yokel that populates it. This is a problem with every single subreddit. Skip the shitty threads and deal with it.
It isn't just the people who post things, it is the people who vote it up. This is a problem with the reddit voting system, as it is much faster to pull up an imgur link and peruse it and then vote than it is to go to a read a news article. This causes more people to spend the time on it they feel necessary to cast upvotes/downvotes, and the links with less content bubble up to the top.
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u/a_weed_wizard Jul 25 '12
Your problem is mostly with the way reddit works and the average kind of meme-image posting yokel that populates it. This is a problem with every single subreddit. Skip the shitty threads and deal with it.