Superficially, your comment could look like a dismissive over-simplified answer to the question "why are these sort of articles popping up on Hacker News?" But

Superficially, your comment could look like a dismissive over-simplified answer to the question "why are these sort of articles popping up on Hacker News?" But I interpret your statement as a suggestion that there may be value in investigating questions of cultural norms. I haven't been tracking "submissions that don't seem to belong", so I don't have a position on the parent's claim. But let's say they are right, and there have been increased submissions that don't belong here. And let's say that you are right, that this is caused by 'redditization'. (Based on dang's argument, this may be entirely temporary.) I'm interpreting 'redditization' as a shift in the impressions of a significant subset of the HN user base, such that various reddit-like behaviors are seen as desirable here. Putting all of this together, your comment suggests to me an actionable strategy. If there is in fact an increase in inappropriate submissions, and if this is due to redditization, then pushing back (via voting, flagging, and feedback via comments) on redditization in all of its forms (not just inappropriate submissions) could shift the culture of HN in such a way that inappropriate submissions become less likely in the future.