Why Reddit needs tags, tabs or topics

I love Reddit. My affection for it has to do with the fact that I was at Startupschool and saw/heard the YCombinator founders talk about their experience - I feel a personal connection with Reddit, even though it may be a weak one. Therefore, as is the want of all love, I must poke my nose into their affairs and ask them to change.

Reddit, like Slashdot, depends on the "wisdom of the masses". Like Slashdot and Kuro5hin and their ilk - this has the effect of, early on, drawing a small tight community of people interested in similar things to the site. Sure there is some variation in the interests of the readers, and they may have opinions at the opposite ends of the spectrum on the same issues, but they are interested in similar things. As the number of readers grow however, their combined interests become less homogenous. At this point, the site has an option of allowing users to form separate subcommunities by allowing tags, tabs or topics. There is still a single front page where everyone can get together. But if you are only interested in the anti-bush stories, you don't have to read about what Paul Graham ate for breakfast. Reddit already did this to an extent by creating nsfw.reddit.com and Joel.reddit.com (Not Safe For Work). I reckon it should not be hard for them to create more. [Runs to check if there are more]

Dammit, of course they have - subreddits. Thusly we teach ourselves that we must look before we leap and check if the basic premise of an article we are about to write is still valid, before we start typing.