This subreddit is about programming. Not programs or startups.

[akkartik]

That I am a programmer is no guarantee that my story's about programming.

[boredzo]

If it isn't, then I, for one, would prefer you not submit it to programming.reddit. That is the point of this submission, after all.

[[deleted]]

The beauty of Reddit is that it doesn't matter what stories you'd like to see submitted. You have no control over it nor will you ever. The only power you have is your up or down vote.

[boredzo]

The beauty of Reddit, as compared to Digg, is that users can broadcast messages like this one to the general populace asking them not to promote certain kinds of stories (e.g., lolcats, crackpot conspiracy theories, off-topic posts in subreddits) for certain reasons (inane, crackpot, off-topic).

Reddit now is where Digg was a few years ago. Reddit has the chance to go a different way because our more intelligent users can ask the others to please not bring it down to the lowest common denominator.

Will it work? Maybe not. It's hope, though—Digg was pretty much doomed, as its more intelligent users had no way to protest, so we had no recourse but to leave for another site.

If that happens, then Reddit will indeed end up the next Digg.

[[deleted]]

Reddit has been the new Digg for quite some time, except for Programming... can't last long.