HN was really interesting because the entire purpose of the site was to engineer and moderate it in such a way that signal is inherently promoted and noise is d

HN was really interesting because the entire purpose of the site was to engineer and moderate it in such a way that signal is inherently promoted and noise is downplayed. But the fascinating thing to me is that its users have evolved to post content that matches what HN's algorithms have considered "signal", despite it not actually being signal, and HN's algorithms and moderation haven't evolved with this statistically significant influx of faux-signal! The very goal of the site is put in danger by its own users learning how to use it, almost like natural-selection. Ironic!