I sort of remember. There was a time when you could get by with the whole "The narwhal bacons at midnight" thing. Redditors would get pretty annoyed, but people would still find it interesting that they met a fellow redditor in the wild. Now, if you tried to pull something like that, you would probably get laughed at. Overall, the pride factor of being redditor went from low/indifferent to almost a taboo.