i dont think hirez gives any fucks about t1
this is mostly an issue with reddit which has a long history of issues with their mods.
see violentacrez being a pedophile, ellen pao being a censoring sjw, their best and most ethical coder commit suicide when he was indited by the feds for giving away all of mit's paywall academic paper subscriptions on a torrent for free so poor kids culd get an education, none of his reddit coworkers had his back. that alexis ohanioan guy is a fuckin creep.
basically i view these types of internet startup companies as often run by highly technical STEM autists with minimal ethics/social skills so they end up being very very black and white thinkers and when they think they are right and you are wrong u are fucked because to them it is a binary choice their can be no middle ground misunderstanding
then u couple that with the fact its a high school level popularity contest with votes and most of the good content is downvoted in favor of one liners and bandwagons
i do not see that format or website being as popular in 10 years i think it will go the way of 4chan or worse even digg as ppl get fed up and move to other news aggregates