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Yep, HN is currently set up so that the Ask/Show/Tell stories decay faster, which just doesn't make sense to me. It seems like there used to be so many more of

Yep, HN is currently set up so that the Ask/Show/Tell stories decay faster, which just doesn't make sense to me. It seems like there used to be so many more of those posts, but it's really that there are more now and they just rarely show up on the frontpage (which is probably the only thing that most people look at). I think you're right about the HN-bait stories -- in fact, I have a feeling that a number of people tend to upvote sensational stories (actually, just the titles) without even reading them, which makes the problem even worse.

DanielBMarkham 16y ago
I've noticed in myself a trend: I'll read the first few graphs and then, once I figure out whether I agree with the author or not, either ditch the whole story or just go upvote it. I assume other people do the same. It's not a good thing to do. I think the site would be much more useful if it were just Ask/Tell/Show HN stories with some kind of meta filtering on top. How do I find a cofounder? What's the best way to measure traction? How do all these startups get so much media attention? Is there some way to navigate from those questions to all the discussions about it that we've had on HN? If so, and if you could do that with a 100 startup-related issues, it'd be a hell of a more useful site than all the gossip and drama that we end up with.