It's fairly recent (2 months say): there may have been such influxes before I arrived (about 18 months ago). But recently I noticed a decline in the quality of

It's fairly recent (2 months say): there may have been such influxes before I arrived (about 18 months ago). But recently I noticed a decline in the quality of comments, voting and (yeh) submissions. The thing that makes me call it a "Reddit influx" is due to a comment posted last week , in response to "what's with all the redditlike commets", from an ex-redditor basically saying that a lot of redditors are coming over to HN because they prefer it now to the "new reddit". Im sure that's been going on a long time - but it's more noticeable now. Certainly HN is completely different to when I first joined :)