OP you're giving us a laundry list of issues but not offering any solutions. How are we going to stop being reddit, if we don't know what your definition of reddit is? A vague idea and some misguided ranting doesn't mean anything here.
Shut down the BLF and redirect it to an archive of 1800's newspapers
If your problem is that people are posting old news, maybe you should learn pattern recognition and familiarize yourself with the concept that just because you know something, doesn't mean everyone knows that thing.