Maybe we're witnessing the diluting of the community? My first instinct would be to say "yeah! Seriously! What's up with that?" but then if you think about it f

Maybe we're witnessing the diluting of the community? My first instinct would be to say "yeah! Seriously! What's up with that?" but then if you think about it for even a second you see that the reason is because these are the kind of stories hackers are either finding interesting or are intellectually stimulating to them. The problem with vague guidelines like the ones here are that what qualifies as meeting those guidelines changes with the community. This could be a good thing in cases where the community is made up of all high caliber individuals that are simply maturing or changing as a group but if those changes are a result of the community simply being diluted with riff raff then it turns against us. Anyway, I know what you mean. I don't think anyone can definitively say you're right or wrong or if this is a good or bad thing. It's just a pattern to be interpreted.