Well... it does, doesn't it?

But reddit obviously aren't bothered (and give you all the tools to build your own reddit), so why should anyone else be?

https://github.com/reddit/

Maybe someone should tell mashable about slashdot?

This 'rip off' was much more evident before Reddit got big (the first time) and redesigned the voting buttons. Before that the designs were almost identical.

Reddit is open source and was a Y combinator startup.I don't see the problem here.

The News (Social bookmarking) pages on our web site are pretty similar as well. Clean minimalist layouts with similar functionality are going to look similar whatever the style influences - well apart from the CSS.

I like both, it doesn't give a sh* about social networking, doesn't emphasize users over content, which is good.

Peter Pachel probably stopped by recently and noticed how much the comments are becoming like Reddit, and felt compelled to make the connection and post it on Mashable.

Quite funny seeing as Reddit was YC-incubated and was clearly inspired by HN