Everyone has quirks Everyone has areas they are ignorant Everyone seems to be most willing to express themselves in these aspects, because they are often areas of conflict. Look at politics, look at reddit, look everywhere. People have, and will, always appear to be absolute shitheads in some places, but be amazing in others. What you are seeing is not that people are horrible, but that most people have good areas and bad areas. Explains why the smaller subreddits also tend to be less bad, because when a person seeks out something to talk about it, it's because that is a "good area". However, when you get a bunch of people from nowhere, with no binding attribute, you get shitheads, lots and lots of them. I am starting to get a "we are better than them" vibe from this site. I'm not liking it.