Respectfully disagree. I'm an old man in my late 30s, and I used message boards a lot before reddit. They sucked. Yeah, reddit does allow for more hivemind behavior with the upvotes but you don't know frustration until you're reading a post you're interested in and two posters start flinging shit at each other and you have to wade through it all just so you can read up on the stuff you actually want to. Even if reddit sucks the reddit model is superior.