It is also said that these guidelines are an effort to prevent the Eternal September that afflicted Usenet (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News htt

It is also said that these guidelines are an effort to prevent the Eternal September that afflicted Usenet (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News) What can happen in practice: more and more people filtering the posts they comment on using any of the techniques described on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1960762 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1960762