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I agree. This place has always been mostly good with a sprinkle of fluff pieces every now and then. The one thing that has changed a bit is the comments. Sadly

I agree. This place has always been mostly good with a sprinkle of fluff pieces every now and then. The one thing that has changed a bit is the comments. Sadly the comments are being muddled a bit by the new kids on the block. Not that the new kids are doing anything intentionally bad, nor are they really bad comments, but I do remember a time where the people replying to comments were actual domain experts in a certain field or they wrote the application that you use every day, etc.... It's a problem with getting a larger user base. I do think that this site has aged about as gracefully as possible though.

roel_v 16y ago
Additionally, I think newer users are conditioned by other sites to use voting as a way to agree or disagree with what is said, rather than as a way to rate the quality of the point being made, regardless of what the point is. Which I find very frustrating, and I know people say 'whining about declining quality has always happened', but I really feel that this voting behavior used to be less pronounced.
- tokenadult 16y ago
  I think newer users are conditioned by other sites to use voting as a way to agree or disagree with what is said, rather than as a way to rate the quality of the point being made, regardless of what the point is. It hasn't just been new users. Rather it has been nearly everyone since the beginning. See what the founder said 1103 days ago about downvoting for disagreement: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171