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It is going to take time for the second-order effects to develop. The optimum writing style may change. When threads require more skimming it pays to write mor

It is going to take time for the second-order effects to develop. The optimum writing style may change. When threads require more skimming it pays to write more skimmable content. The reading style will also change. None of these changes will happen overnight; it takes time, the way that learning emacs takes time. So I agree: Let the experiment run longer. What is the worst that can happen? HN becomes an order of magnitude less popular? I liked HN when it was an order of magnitude less popular. ;)

pbhjpbhj 16y ago
>What is the worst that can happen? Personally I feel I've lost a great news source as the work required to use HN is now much greater (for me). Obviously, as a community, losing my comments isn't going to be noticed. But this appears to be the way of things, first Slashdot, then Digg, then Reddit, then HN, where next ...? I see that the average comment score has been fiddled with too - mine was only 2.6 or so (but rising). I can't tell from it whether it's rising or not now.