I've been here from the beginning, and I disagree almost entirely. In my opinion, the quality of this community stayed remarkably high from the earliest days. W

I've been here from the beginning, and I disagree almost entirely. In my opinion, the quality of this community stayed remarkably high from the earliest days. While Reddit became a sad, sad place where dissenting opinions are quickly shut down by an angry mob, here we can actually have intelligent arguments without any name calling, where two sides seem to genuinely respect each other. I have not seen this in any other online community that got this big and existed for more than a couple of years. It seems like most people here really do follow the "if you wouldn't say it to a person's face, don't type it", which is incredible. As far as non-relevant links - yes, there's that. To me, most of those are still interesting, some of those are annoying. But - I've learned to just ignore the ones that I'm not interested in. So - of course everyone is going to have their own opinion on this - but I think HN is still nowhere near "jumping the shark" point