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I had the same questions... This chart is just a snapshot in time. It's hard to infer any sort of 'change' from it. Perhaps the newer members of HN have always

I had the same questions... This chart is just a snapshot in time. It's hard to infer any sort of 'change' from it. Perhaps the newer members of HN have always been more active contributors (I can think of several reasonable ideas as to why that might be).

lostbit 16y ago
Indeed. I also thought: "wasn't it always like this?". I understand newcomers tend to be naturally more active. But I also agree that the more subscribers HN has, more is the probability of its quality going low... Maybe a graph with the average of downvotes per articles over time could help.