I can understand your decision, but I think "leaving" news.yc might be a bit drastic. I've been reading hacker news for months now and I personally haven't not

I can understand your decision, but I think "leaving" news.yc might be a bit drastic. I've been reading hacker news for months now and I personally haven't noticed a dramatic drop off in the quality of posts. The signal to noise ratio has gone up and there are a lot more "meta" posts recenty - posts to news.yc about news.yc. Despite these things, I still find quality information on a consistent basis. HN is pretty timely...I'm as likely to read something first here as I am on reddit or digg or any other social news site. The posts tend to be more start up oriented and many of the technical posts are of a better quality than I'd find anywhere else. Despite the noise, there is still a lot of legitimate value on news.yc I'm not trying to ask the question "well if you don't like hacker news, what site is better?". That would only start an argument based on preference. Instead I'm asking "Isn't some startup focused social news, even with a high signal to noise ratio, better than none at all?". It's possible that at some point, there will be so many worthless posts that sifting through them will be more trouble than it's worth. But at this point, it seems to me that there are still interesting posts and insightful comments everyday on news.yc and it's still a ways away from not being a valuable daily read.