I'm an infrequent enough Reddit user that their odd argot and mile-long discussions about ponies are really a disincentive for me to read past the intro to an AMA. Using HN for topically relevant AMAs provide a welcome relief from Reddit's tiresome fractals of inane comments.
The trick is to set reddit preferences to only show comments rated 10 or higher. That'll cut down on most of the garbage, though you'll still get a lot of highly rated "funny" posts. But you can just minimize a thread once it starts devolving into nonsense.
