I think there are too many "HN is going down the tubes for x reasons" self posts. At any given time there are thirty (often unique) stories on the HN frontpage

I think there are too many "HN is going down the tubes for x reasons" self posts. At any given time there are thirty (often unique) stories on the HN frontpage. From time to time some of them will be off-topic, link-bait, sensationalist. The current x vs y soap opera is not any worse than Apple vs Adobe opera or Apple vs Windows opera or any other opera for that matter. These are predictable patterns and happens ALL the time and anyone who has been hanging around long enough should know that. I don't think it is any worse than last year or the year before that.