[Snowdax]

You're right. It's not. At least there if I post something a conversation usually happens. Here, I post something and, at best, I get one reply total. While Reddit indeed has a load of crap at least some percentage of it is valuable engagement once you stay of the default and political subreddits.

Here I get they same amount of value of posting when I have something to say as putting it into a local text file.

[iak8god]

It sounds as if you like Reddit and Reddit likes you. Maybe instead of getting salty because HN doesn't appreciate puerile humor, you should just take it back to Reddit.

[ribosometronome]

I don't know -- telling someone they should go back to another site so as not to reduce the quality of this one is a very Reddit thing to do. See you over at Digg!