I feel the same way as you. It seems to be the nature of all good forums or anything that has a concentration of folks that create good conversation. The good

I feel the same way as you. It seems to be the nature of all good forums or anything that has a concentration of folks that create good conversation. The good people move on to other things and/or the newer people come in, typically lacking the technical or ideological slant that would have brought them into the fold earlier in the forum aging process. PG seemed to know it was coming[1] but I'm wondering whether the dilution is ever able to be mitigated. It's not like anyone has come up with an easy solution to filtering people in slowly without destroying the quality of discussion. One thing that should always be considered is that maybe the discussion was always bad but you were new at that point too. 1. http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html