When I started to write this post I was thinking about listening ten reasons, as you see finally I decided to share only five major ones. Let’s say the rest might be a little bit discussing. You know there’s a opportunity for Reddit fanboy to appear so it will be better if I don’t give him good arguments to start the fight within comment discussion below my writings 
1. Reddit is UGLY
First time when I saw the design it was a nice curiosity. Second time it was tiring for my eyes. Third time my eyes simply fell in agony so I’ve stopped to visit Reddit.
2. Reddit is CONFUSING
There are no descriptions for submitted stories, also service doesn’t show the number of points that new story has accumulated. One can say it gives a better chance at judging a story by the community BUT thanks to that fact its users are always forced to swim in the cesspit of all submitted news. What of it? Seems not many like to swim across the crap and content listed on Reedit changes slowly (as mentioned in next point).
3. Reddit is so SLOW
Thanks to much smaller amount of users this service has a far slower rate of submission than Digg. If you do think it’s okay you must be a fan of 84 years old man that still drives his first car.
4. Reddit is MESSED UP
Story that receives up votes actually appears higher on the front page. So all POP craps are always on top. And that’s really great, isn’t it? The biggest group of interests simply controls the front page.
5. Reddit is BORING
The major reason why I don’t use Reddit. There’s no way to figure out how its users do choose stories to vote. Currently there are only 3-4 worth stories (in my humble opinion of course) listed on the front page of Reddit. Guess it’s not much when the total number of stories is 25….
Post was inspired by home page improvements coming on Digg, an article published at Pronet Advertising, and a comment written by Jon 
August 23rd, 2007 #
I’ve never visited Reddit so here’s my first opinion:
It looks very simplistic. Nice clean interface, no jarring style elements. However you might say it looks more like a startup than a professional site.
No descriptions in the main page is annoying, yes.
August 23rd, 2007 #
[...] This post is a direct response to Bart’s 5 reasons why I don’t use Reddit for social bookmarking. [...]
August 23rd, 2007 #
Marc: It doesn’t even look like a startup, I think. Reddit is comparable to this Wordpress theme, so broadly speaking the design totally sucks (IMO of course
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Jon: My comments to your response were added below the post on your blog. Bring it
August 24th, 2007 #
Yeah, reddit is also redundant. People rush to submit digg front page stories. Thus the same news is on both sites. It boils down to ease of use, and reddit is just crap.
August 24th, 2007 #
the interface is not good but they take pride in that. 2 their credit, reddit people read articles before voting. digg people tend to vote for their friends so their friends will vote for them - and digg has a lot of corporate people digging up their articles and burying others.
if you digg a science article all the physorg.com people will bury your article. if you’re digging a tech site the arstechnica people will. Both of those are just middlemen sites but they are on the front page every day because it is easy to get articles buried and only theirs remain.
I mostly do tech but it may happen in politics 2. None is perfect but reddit gives every site a fair chance. digg doesn’t care about burying as long as it’s the popular people doing it.
Reddit is less easy to game
August 24th, 2007 #
ob81: Nice point. I got one another idea - if Reddit had changed the service, they would fail their business model (being a strange alternative to Digg). Do I overact?
August 24th, 2007 #
Tammany: Very interesting comment, honesty I haven’t thought about the way that Digg allows users to bury others in a pesky, organized way. Thank you very much, I’m gonna give it a careful consideration
December 23rd, 2007 #
some of your reasons are really true but some of them not.
December 23rd, 2007 #
You mean - justifiable? You may be right, at least it’s only my personal point of view