Reddit a nest of preening mediocrity best suited for funny animal meme propagation. It's a dumbed-down version of Digg, which was a dumbed-down version of Slashdot, which was a dumbed-down version of Usenet.
r/viacoin has all of 127 readers. This thread has 300k views and 4.6k responses.
Better a "warzone" than a ghost town.
Yes, but that's only because this is the focal point, people are funnelled here to talk not anywhere else. I'm pretty sure if you counted the number of actual participants on this epic thread you'd see there's not so many people actually talking.