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Ask HN: Anyone else feeling HN posts quality dropping down?
- markwison001 6y agoAlso dropping from search appearance, maybe that's why they changed the beta.
- smt88 6y agoNo
- 10kresistor 6y agoI feel the community "quality" has always been pretty low and hive mindy.
- smt88 6y agoHow can it be true that the community is a hive mind, but also that every discussion is a (sometimes 5-layer-deep) argument? If it were a hive mind, wouldn't there be little argument at all?
- 10kresistor 6y agoThere is no argument when the opinions being expressed are not of the hive mind it gets downvoted and flagged. You never see dissenting opinions because they're removed from the site.
- runawaybottle 6y agoWhat is HN’s most natural comparison? Slashdot? They are less nice, as smart, with a lot more 4chan going on now days.
- exlurker 6y agoThe tech posts are mostly good - politics are too US-centric, no surprise. Quality of comments going down, for sure. There's an abundance of "libertarian" views. Make of that what you will, but when you see it enough, you know the conversation here is dominated by a lot of young techies spending most of their days in a bubble.
- 1123581321 6y agoI thought there might have been a quality dip when quarantines picked up steam in the US. Isolation or boredom might weaken some users’ internal filter that normally protects the site from mediocre comments.
- CM30 6y agoPersonally I haven't noticed a huge drop in quantity, if any at all. The tech related posts are still as good as they were before, and the politics posts are still as much of a disaster as they were before. And the latter's kind of just a politics thing in general; everywhere you can even think of discussing it will either become an echo chamber or a shouting match.