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I wonder if it's just a symptom of Hacker News getting more popular? My theory is that, as a site grows, the quality of comments goes down. Perhaps it's becaus
by gwbas1c 5y ago
I wonder if it's just a symptom of Hacker News getting more popular?
My theory is that, as a site grows, the quality of comments goes down. Perhaps it's because the site is harder to moderate when more people are on it? Perhaps it's because the attention drives in the loonies?
Personally, I really like how Hacker News is moderated. (Thanks Dang!)
- mateo1 5y agoI agree with the generally good moderation and I'd like to see more of the low effort comments being removed. I have been noticing more juvenile jokes and puns lately.
- djbusby 5y agoI believe it is our duty to downvote.
- denton-scratch 5y agoI'm afraid I like puns and cheap jokes; I know they violate content guidelines, and I don't mind being downvoted. I hope my jokes aren't juvenile, though. Downvoting and flagging is good; but unless you're downvoting something that's just a vacuous quip, then I think the downvoter should usually make a comment.
- gwbas1c 5y agoI agree, I wish people weren't so aggressive about downvoting jokes.
- oramit 5y agoYou and a few others have commented on popularity but do we have numbers for this? Is HN more busy than it used to be?
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoI think that, as the site grows bigger, it becomes more worthwhile to post here with an agenda, because you can influence more people. So as a large-scale trend, posts went from more thoughtful and having-a-discussion to more dogmatic and oratorical.