&gt;Structurally, the site just doesn&#x27;t do enough to incentivize high quality contributions. &#x2F;&#x2F;<p>As the parent intimated people don&#x27;t all want your idea of quality. Reddit seems perfectly capable of quality within its structure - AskScience and AskHistorians seen like good examples. In other subs [SERIOUS] tags seem to work quite well.<p>&gt;The problem for Reddit is that they&#x27;re front and center, not at the fringes. &#x2F;&#x2F;<p>It&#x27;s primarily for entertainment the low SNR subreddits being most prominent seems to be a consequence of that.