That's a pretty self-centered world view, then. Why do you think your view should be the view as represented on any given Reddit page? Don't you see that everyone has views, just like you do, and should be allowed to express them, just as you do?
How would you design a system in which everyone had the same amount of influence over a series of submissions?
>Don't you see that everyone has views, just like you do, and should be allowed to express them, just as you do?
The problem is where it comes down to implementation.
By not allowing for moderation, all of the content in reddit will gravitate to the same standard you see on the frontpage, just broken up by category, where the only deviation will be in the smaller sub-sections of the community that aren't yet subjected to the rot of the more mainstream communities.
So, for someone like me who desires content beyond the same dozen memes reposted in various forms everyday, there is little content for me to view when only the mob rules. Which means I would have little use for reddit as a whole, aside from the occasional time wasting when I had nothing better to do.
Moderation is what allows for decent content to exist outside of the trivially small sub-reddits. There are plenty of places on reddit to view shallow content (in fact, I would say the vast majority of the content on reddit is of the shallow variety). The existence of more heavily moderated sub-reddits doesn't prevent these places from existing, but it does allow for sub-reddits to deviate from the norm.
So, to summarize, moderation is what allows me to view the type of content on reddit that I would like to see. Remove the moderation and I would have little use for the site.
How would you design a system in which everyone had the same amount of influence over a series of submissions?