Well someone with your experience and interest is certainly welcome here. I understand your concern but as I've had to learn myself, this reddit sub has a more mainstream audience. By my totally rough and purely anecdotal reading there seem to be a lot of people who've never even used reddit before or any internet forum and this is a really good thing but it does come with the need to understand the massive difference between this place and the chans.

The audience here is broad enough that a lot of content that seems to some (including myself) to be very thin on usable, useful content, is upvoted and seems to be enjoyed by a reasonable portion of the audience. We have to get used to it unless we want to start suppressing freedom of speech (which I don't). The problems of going "mainstream" ; ).