It's funny how your post is being regarded as controversial, there's absolutely nothing false about what you're saying, and even I feel like I'm beating a dead horse by mentioning that what you speak of is a Reddit-wide problem. People love easy-to-digest content, it gets upvoted the most, it always hits the front page, and the comment section always has that long meaningless debate about what belongs in the subreddit and what doesn't.

I wish the discussion would change a little bit, honestly, I realize that people upvote what they want to, I'm in no place to say that what other people upvote is 'stupid' or not, it's just a matter of fact that vote-by-committee will always yield whatever's the most comfortable for the greatest number of people, and that always means non-challenging material. That's the fundamental core mechanic of how Reddit works. It's not going to change by arguing about it.

I love Reddit, honestly I do, I find out about cool, new, and interesting things every day here, I discover new insights about all my interests as I care to look for them, comment sections are particularly good at dismantling sensationalism and rhetoric, I feel like I'm less wrong about a wide variety of popular topics because of my time here, and there's even a very big counter-culture here that brings awareness to the hive-mind's less productive biases and prejudices.

Reddit's cool in many ways, but lets not pretend that it isn't rigged in favor of the lowest common denominator. Points are worthless here, and until someone creates the next big link aggregation community website that favors more intellectual discussion, we pretty much just got what we got. No use worrying about what it isn't.

Edit: Also, didn't mean to sound condescending to the OP. I love Calvin and Hobbes, but really, who doesn't? It's well, well established that it's a good comic. But being reminded about it every day is kinda mind-numbing, in a way.