If you don't know you /u/_Vargas_ is, well, here's a subreddit full of his posts. Comedy gold, plus you'll know it's him ahead of time!

A few others I love:

/r/TotallyNotRobots

JUST NORMAL HUMAN THINGS *BEEP BOOP*

/r/EyeBleach

Cute things for saving your sanity after you accidentally visit the more disturbing parts of the internet.

/r/RetiredGifs

Links to places where gifs were used in the most perfect way possible. Sometimes this takes some digging, and you really don't know what sort of thread you're going to end up in, but the gif will always be gold.

Love Bungie as much as anyone. This was a brain fart / cock up. Happens to the best of us. The live team / last folks on D1 probably don't have all the support they need. Not Reddit's fault

https://www.reddit.com/r/thomasthedankengine/

Remixes of the Thomas the Tank Engine theme. Here's an example. Listen to it while you read the rest of this list.

https://www.reddit.com/r/stupidfuckingcup/

A subreddit dedicated to hating cups and how dumb they are. You may not post mugs, and you may not post positive things about cups.

Normalish ones:

https://www.reddit.com/r/195/
You have to post something before you leave if you visit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/7zipmasterrace/
A subreddit talking about how awesome 7zip is and trashing WinRAR
https://www.reddit.com/r/90sdesign/

https://www.reddit.com/r/abkbkadl/
Animals being kicked by kangaroos.
https://www.reddit.com/r/atoptics
I bet you didn't know how many types of weird things you can see in the sky. Halos, sprites, fogbows, ice pillars, etc.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BarcodePorn/
Photos of neat barcodes.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BirdsForScale/
Drawings of big things that have birds in the photo to let you know they're big.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CatsISUOTTATFO/
Cats Inadvertently Swatting Unknown Objects Towards Themselves And Then Freaking Out.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CatsStandingUp/
Cat.
https://www.reddit.com/r/chairsunderwater/
Photos of chairs underwater.
https://www.reddit.com/r/comeonandslam/
Remixes of the theme song to Space Jam, the 1995 movie with Bugs Bunny and Michael Jordan.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FindTheSniper/
Pictures that have snipers in them and you have to find the sniper.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Forts/
People making forts out of pillows or toilet paper and stuff.
https://www.reddit.com/r/GreenDawn/
People taking photos of plastic army men and roleplaying as if they're real.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HeavySeas/
Videos of boats in big waves
https://www.reddit.com/r/insidethefridge/
Pictures of the inside of fridges.
https://www.reddit.com/r/itsaunixsystem/
Videos of TV shows or movies showing simple computer operations as if they're advanced hacking.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapsWithoutNZ/
Maps without New Zealand
https://www.reddit.com/r/MedievalNorseStudies/
Academic subreddit about Vikings and Old Norse.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MisleadingPuddles/
Puddles which don't look deep, but are.
https://www.reddit.com/r/NotTrending/
A subreddit dedicated to not trending.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SampleSize/
A subreddit for people who like to take surveys.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Soda/
A subreddit for pop.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SoundsLikeMusic/
Things in real life that sound like music.
https://www.reddit.com/r/submechanophobia/
Being afraid of things below the water.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Thomassons/
Architectural relics of the past. Stairs that go to nothing, fence for no reason, etc.
https://www.reddit.com/r/toiletviews/
Pictures of views outside bathroom windows.

Weird or NSFW (not pr0n, just things you might get in trouble for at work) ones.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Barbara/
Dedicated to stalkers of Blawndee from redvsblue.com.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nataliapoklonskaya/
News about ex Crimean Prosecutor, Natalia Poklonskaya
https://www.reddit.com/r/onefuckgiven/
Clips of PG-13 movies using the one allocated F word
https://www.reddit.com/r/picturesofiansleeping/
Pictures of a guy named Ian sleeping. It's been going on for 5 years.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TaydolfSwiftler/
You post pictures of Hitler with Taylor Swift quotes.

r/findasubreddit is the one I'm finding right now, but I'm pretty sure there was a less obviously-named one that was more active.

Downside is that if you use it to find an obscure sub, odds are you'll make it less obscure and more likely to be invaded by the very things you're hoping to avoid.

1. Go to the findasubreddit sub before it is ruined by the popularity brought on by your post.
2. Figure out how the heck you post properly on reddit.
3. Fail at posting and correct your numerous mistakes.
4. Ask the findasubreddit sub if they know of the good but really hard to find findasubreddit sub.
5. Ask that sub where the one good Destiny sub is.
6. Enjoy that sub for the brief time it remains good since you just attracted attention to it by having it recommended to you.
7. GOTO 1.
8. Realize that 1 doesn't work anymore because it was ruined sometime between 2 and 7.
9. Continue to ignore reddit as you have always done.

Downside is that if you use it to find an obscure sub, odds are you'll make it less obscure and more likely to be invaded by the very things you're hoping to avoid.

How would one find a sub? Especially if one has a strict moral imperative to stay the heck away from the main sub? Do I just start guessing /r's ??

Honestly, I don't even know. Mostly it just happens by spending a lot of time on reddit and following links and rabbit holes until you find cool stuff. There is RedditList, which is literally just a ranking of the top 5,000 subs. Not easy or convenient, but you can just scroll through the list and click on stuff that sounds interesting and find stuff that way. Lots of subs will have links to other relevant or similar subs in their sidebars.

Other than that, if there is a specific subject matter in which you're interested, just google whatever that subject is with "reddit" after it, and you'll nearly always find a sub dedicated to that thing.

The more esoteric the subreddit, the better the community is likely to be.

And you might as well just avoid really widespread subs like /r/games unless you just want to see asinine memes that don't even make sense 90% of the time.

Reddit is great once you find the subs you like, but you have to wade through a whole lot of garbage and bullshit to get to those.

Two fantastic Destiny subs full of excellent people who are good at being excellent to one another.

And then there's /r/DestinyTheGame. Ugh. It's the most obvious sub, and therefore the one full of the most immature people. It is possible to have a reasonable conversation there, but not likely. There are so many people there that the sense of community is lost and it's just a thousand voices yelling into the void, all simply trying to be heard. So of course the loudest and most obnoxious voices are the ones that stand out. It's a perfect simulation of the internet.

But hey, I'm glad you're here, buddy. DBO has a much better community than any stinky old subreddits.

Wow Reddit is horrible. People are just shitting on Bungie for how much they sucked at playing crucible during the stream. News flash: the people you see playing aren't the only people who test the game. Their performance is not indicative of their ability to design or balance games.

This is why we can't have nice things.

So glad DBO is civilized. :-)

With HBO/DBO, discussions can be heated, but people tend to give a certain amount of respect to each other/Bungie. At least in the past, there was always the potential that someone from Bungie would read and respond to what you wrote. I think that changes how people talk and the quality of the conversation/criticism.

This is why I've used DBO to curate my xbox live friendships (outside of those I know in person). Posting on the same site that you visit with people you play with makes you accountable for your words. It tends to filter out the drive-by internet jerks who make comments on youtube videos.

All that to say, I don't visit reddit very often. I think it can be good, but there's not a lot that holds the community together and the conversation often suffers. That being said, the sheer volume of users usually means they are quick to turn up interesting things.

This is why we can't have nice things.

So glad DBO is civilized. :-)