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You stated a gripe/opinion as a question, with no data to back it up. What do you mean by "quality of posts?" It seems you really mean that more people you deci
by gregjor 6y ago
You stated a gripe/opinion as a question, with no data to back it up. What do you mean by "quality of posts?" It seems you really mean that more people you decide have less sophistication or education (less than whom?) come to dominate reddit and HN over time. Unless you have a sincere solution this post just adds to the noise you complain about.
Although HN and some sub-reddits started for niche and geek audiences, nothing about them made them exclusive to the niche. Nothing about "Hacker News" says niche to me, since "hacker" has a vague and shifting definition. All kinds of stuff gets posted here, much of it having nothing to do with hacking or tech geeks.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoI don't know what gt565k meant by "quality of posts". I'm not sure I can define it rigorously, either, but I can feel in experience that the quality of posts is in fact declining.
- gregjor 6y agoMore likely the number of "low quality" posts increases over time. Even if I agree that I sense a decline in quality, I don't have a solution. Why doesn't the world work the way I think it should? I find the HN format very easy to skim and skip, easier than reddit. Regardless of the quality of the posts I can easily ignore those that don't strike me as relevant or interesting. The more exclusive groups I have participated in often have different problems. The posts may stay more relevant and "high-quality" but the forum turns into showing off and bickering over trivia -- intellectual posturing. I find that more annoying and time-wasting than having to skip over half of HN posts every day because I don't care about Bitcoin or Elon Musk's tweets or some new React technique, nor do I care to look at someone's to-do list side project and comment on which database they should use.