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I’ve noticed over the last two years a significant decline in the quality of the comments and front page posts on HN. I blame this partially on the larger tech

I’ve noticed over the last two years a significant decline in the quality of the comments and front page posts on HN. I blame this partially on the larger tech sites referencing and linking back to HN, so a new…demographic..of online users are now here. Some days HN is really good, and I’m enjoying the commentary and creators posting, other days I feel like I’m on Digg with reddit quality replies and attacks. I’m still here, I check almost daily, but I’d be lying if I didn’t say the quality has gone downhill

pc86 3y ago
No, probably not. > 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/item?id=1524184 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1524184 (July 2010) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=926703 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=926703 (Nov 2009) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=633099 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=633099 (May 2009) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=582513 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=582513 (April 2009) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=289254 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=289254 (August 2008) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=253657 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=253657 (July 2008) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=66057 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=66057 (Oct 2007) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=60767 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=60767 (Sept 2007) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13852 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13852 (Aug 2007)
- antegamisou 3y ago
  This would be relevant if the user base and site content were the same as the ones in the dates of the links you've cited, the most recent being thirteen years old! However, it's another obsolete BS etiquette HN has came up with so its userbase feels intellectually superior to Redditors, even though they both have been found to converge as is evident from observations by others similar to the ones expressed at the OP.
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  - throwaway202303 3y ago
    you should ask chatgpt to summarize your posts

pc86 3y ago

No, probably not. > 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/item?id=1524184 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1524184 (July 2010) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=926703 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=926703 (Nov 2009) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=633099 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=633099 (May 2009) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=582513 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=582513 (April 2009) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=289254 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=289254 (August 2008) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=253657 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=253657 (July 2008) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=66057 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=66057 (Oct 2007) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=60767 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=60767 (Sept 2007) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13852 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13852 (Aug 2007)

antegamisou 3y ago
This would be relevant if the user base and site content were the same as the ones in the dates of the links you've cited, the most recent being thirteen years old! However, it's another obsolete BS etiquette HN has came up with so its userbase feels intellectually superior to Redditors, even though they both have been found to converge as is evident from observations by others similar to the ones expressed at the OP.
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- throwaway202303 3y ago
  you should ask chatgpt to summarize your posts