It's a funny label to apply. Arguably, all that it really takes to become a redditor is a username, password, and a captcha.
I'm being downvoted. Am I wrong? Please let me know rather than punishing me for reasons unknown.
I think you are missing the point in your shallow analysis
Maybe. Was just pointing that fact out though. I've been on reddit for 4 years now. After the community has grown it just seems a bit naive to refer to it as a little exclusive club of intellectualism, or from an outsider's perspective, a meme graveyard. Just an observation.
I assumed you were being funny, since HN doesn't even have a captcha in their signup form. Have an upvote.
You do not need to tell people that you are upvoting them.
Hmm, it appears as if you have a stick up your ass. Maybe you should work on that.
I didn't want to get further involved, so thanks for that. Have an upvote.
So then if they create good content, then just link to it. We want to think we're a meritocracy, and we will upvote things if they are good. It's not a popularity contest, nor a political game where we need to "prove" that something/someone is good.