2009 Demo Day - 370 days ago (First comment with 101 points = completely dismissive and a huge rant) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=522675 http://news.yco

2009 Demo Day - 370 days ago (First comment with 101 points = completely dismissive and a huge rant) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=522675 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=522675 2008 Summer Demo Day - 587 days ago (First comment = snarky remark about the company logos... sound familiar?): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=276333 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=276333 2007 Demo Day - 957 days ago (Half the thread is [dead] and full of bickering similar to this one): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41269 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41269 So no, HN did not ever do better. It only seems worse because instead of 2 complaints about company logos, HN is now 10x the size and you see 20 complaints. There's still a lot of great articles posted, HN "Ask/Tell" discussions, and it's still full of intelligent people. However, it takes wisdom to know when to shut one's mouth, and intelligence != wisdom. I've been here about 3 years myself, and that's why I try to stay logged out and make my bookmark to HN = /best. It's just gotten far too noisy and I was wasting tons of time keeping up with the sheer volume of (both good and bad) comments.