Nice to see HN finally has a semi-active moderator. As you can see I’ve taken quite the hiatus from HN because the noise to signal ratio got really bad. I don’

Nice to see HN finally has a semi-active moderator. As you can see I’ve taken quite the hiatus from HN because the noise to signal ratio got really bad. I don’t care about downvotes, if I did I wouldn’t post my actual opinions here, I just found it silly that people were trying to bury a comment that wasn’t the standard doom and gloom and ignorance I see around the crash. Interestingly as soon as I edited my post the downvotes stopped and I started getting upvotes so some people found the edit interesting. :thinking emoji: If you care to hear from someone who has been part of this community since early days, too many people are able to vote on comments. They don’t lurk, they are attracted here from a controversial link and stick around, reflexively treating upvotes/downvotes as a disagree/agree button instead of interesting/not-interesting like it used to be. Maybe the eternal September has finally arrived for good, or perhaps I’ve drifted from the core values of your typical HNer while this site stayed the same or drifted in a different direction. Only you would have the traffic and usage stats to know. I’m curious what percent of active HNers have an account created within a standard deviation of mine. -posted from my phone so forgive typos