It is upsetting that you amongst others feel this way. Obviously you have never really taken the time to go through and look at 4chan. Reddit is very similar in many ways to 4chan. When you visit 4chan you are given many broad links from technology to fashion advice. It is very much in the same style as Reddit. Someone starts a thread about a topic and then others can reply. Although 4chan is a lot less moderated than most Reddit communities. Although there is the exception with /b/ which is what you are most likely referring too. /b/ is a board where anything and everything goes. It is also moderated like the other boards, albeit not as strictly. Also /b/ and a few other boards have an 18+ age limit. The average age of someone on 4chan in general should technically be much higher on average due to the amount of adult content. I can assure you that Reddit is not seeing an influx of immature kids from 4chan. If you look at ChrisH117's history you can see he is in no way trying to purposely hurt the original poster. He, like most people have an understanding of what the community wants to see, jokes. If you haven't visited 4chan before I can assure you that if you go there with an actual purpose to partake in the community such as /g/ (technology) or others you will see that people tend to have conversations much like those seen in r/technology.

You also say "Reddit used to be better than this", now your account says you have only been here for 7 months. I can only hope that like a majority of redditors you have multiple accounts (or just lurked for a while). Otherwise you actually have no stance on how reddit used to be (other than a few months back). Its almost feels like a meme when someone says that a website used to be better, because it is said so much. People have been saying this about reddit since way before you joined.

It was never not tolerated to call someone a faggot, when they meant it as a insult (I mean a real insult, as in trying to upset someone). Its just social norms that we here on reddit adhered to both the written rules of reddit, and rules set in place by our peers. When a post gets way out of hand, that's when you use the report button (which I honestly hope people use when someone is honestly breaking the rules). Most of us can understand the difference between an act of aggression and a joke. Some people honestly might not be, and that is when someone can politely tell them that. Rather we have seen an influx of self righteous people that feel that it is their sole job to judge others. I apologize, but I have looked through your comment history and noticed that you too tend to be aggressive towards people here. I am not saying it is wrong to call someone out if they know they did something wrong. This is the internet though, and we talk using text. This makes it extremely hard in some situations to gauge the attitude of others. Especially with all of the different skill levels of writing. A single misplaced word or comma can completely change the meaning of a sentence.

I can understand where brown2hm is coming from though. Reddit tends to to be a more family friendly site. It is especially weird to see a post like this receive so many upvotes in a subreddit like r/aww. This is the internet though, you have to understand that people are aloud to govern their own content (for the most part). Reddit like most internet sites nowadays are built on user generated content. This means that even if it should be child friendly, it is not required. Your comment though added little to the discussion. In the end all you did was insult the 4chan community, without reason.

Two last things. Firstly I could definitely go back a few years and still find post like the one from ChrisH117. Reddit is a website by users for users. Things people like or find interesting are upvoted. Things people dislike are downvoted. We are not perfect. Trolls have been upvoted thousands of times, making the front page. All the same we have seen people group up and textually attack innocent people over a misunderstanding. I really have no idea where I was going with this I just got bored.