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I've personally noticed the quality of submissions drop recently. I'm also nowhere near part of the original crowd (although today is my 1 year anniversary of r

I've personally noticed the quality of submissions drop recently. I'm also nowhere near part of the original crowd (although today is my 1 year anniversary of registering), but there has been a steady degradation of submission quality starting probably two months ago. There was a time when I'd read practically every article on the front page. Now, I pick a handful that tend to be towards the bottom. It's done wonders for my productivity, though, so I guess it's not all bad.

jasonkester 17y ago
It's probably a side effect of the quantity of submissions going up. I've noticed that the last few submissions I made scrolled off the "new" page inside of 20 minutes. One of those articles made it to 100+ points on programming.reddit (and onto the front page), so it wouldn't be surprising to learn that a lot of good stuff is simply falling through the cracks. Surprisingly, programming.reddit.com's "new" page is about 4-6 hours "tall" most of the time. HN has evidently become the new hot place to dump linkbait tech articles.