It's working now. Be warned, tho, I did it a few hours ago, and it took a ridiculously long time to load between questions (sometimes up to nearly a minute).
The exact date reddit became cesspool-ized was October 31, 2006. Getting bought put reddit at the top of slashdot and other sites creating the eternal september effect.
After October 31, reddit started having hundreds of votes and hundreds of comments on articles. Now we get to wake up to the front page's top five links being [pic] along side the never ending banter of it's-a-conspiracy/it's-not-a-conspiracy.