I agree with the "skill" part of your comment and read it because of that; the other part of your comment I have no knowledge about one way or the other... I kn

I agree with the "skill" part of your comment and read it because of that; the other part of your comment I have no knowledge about one way or the other... I know what they claim, I don't know what the practice actually is. However, I find that this "skill" focused quality seems to be degrading over time with lobste.rs. My feeling is that I'm seeing an increasing number of posts moving to the opinion side (politics/culture) and the quality of comments overall seems to be waning a bit too. I'm not saying the these are dramatic shifts, but nonetheless shifting. Perhaps this is inevitable with more and more members. (For the record I do not have a lobste.rs account) I do agree with the parent article here... most of HN is a wasteland of "opinion" stories and comments (much like my comment here). I'm guilty of contributing to this, too... I do my best to not get baited, but sometimes emotion overcomes my reason. However, when there are "skill" oriented stories, the comments here on HN tend to have some outstanding entries, the quality of which I don't see as frequently on lobste.rs. lobste.rs is generally good, but doesn't achieve great as frequently. The challenge of HN is sorting through all the crap... I don't use the HN front page. So far http://hn.elijames.org/ http://hn.elijames.org/ this has been helpful at the story level.