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From the guidelines: > Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills. https://news.ycombina
by blowski 5y ago
From the guidelines:
> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dijonman2 5y agoI think if the person commenting truly believes it and has other substantive points the rules can and should be bent.
- nohankyou 5y agoI agree, this place has turned to trash.
- karmakaze 5y ago> Nov 6, 2009 | on: Ask HN: Is it just me, or are HN comments becoming... > I'm at a year and a half. Hacker News is turning into Reddit. It's following the exact same path, albeit thankfully slower, and the causes behind that path—influx of users, need for attention, karma lust—aren't causes that Paul is looking to fix. > Reddit's not the worst thing in the world, but make no mistake, we're headed there. I can't say I disagree.
- ameliaquining 5y agoI was curious about the history of this, so I checked on the Wayback Machine. Originally (at least as of July 2014, the earliest archived date), this rule had an "if your account is less than a year old" clause. The rule went away entirely in August 2017, and then came back again in November 2018 without the clause.