Farewell...

[Orry Verducci]

Reddit's only slightly less toxic than Twitter (it is after all just Twitter on steroids) but with the concept of downvoting and its never appealed.
If you get into the right subreddits you can find some decent communities on there but I would question whether Reddit as a whole fits our style of discussion.

It's only as toxic as the subreddits you subscribe to, if you sign up and only want to see subreddits about a certain subject then that's all you get.

It's different to Twitter as you follow subjects not people. So if you're only following subreddits about, for example, football you only get posts from the groups about football. What you you don't is get other content appearing in your feed that your friends have interacted with 

As I say there are some very well restricted and moderated subreddits out there, I've had posts rejected for having square rather than round brackets, or for posting articles from certain sites

I second Inspector's comments. Yes there's some toxic subreddits, but there's also many excellent ones, and generally speaking I find the ones focused on more specialist subjects (like ours) to be quite good. It all comes down to rules of that subreddit and how well its run by its mods.

If we did go down that route, as much as I like the idea of using r/tvforum as a homage to the blue site, I worry that the general populus will think it's a place to talk about last nights episode of whatever reality show the networks are airing. Something like r/uktvpres makes it much clearer what it's about.