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That ship has sailed my friend. Comments like this have been proliferating for some time. And then they take off on their own uninteresting threads like you see
by slingnow 3y ago
That ship has sailed my friend. Comments like this have been proliferating for some time. And then they take off on their own uninteresting threads like you see on Reddit, with people just repeating low-effort meme responses on and on and on.
It even has its own useless follow-up comment: "Frozen water?"
- eindiran 3y agoYeah the old refrain that the Redditification of HN is an illusion[0] becomes less true with each passing year. Communities obviously change with time, but the Covid era and the tumult with Reddit really did a number on this one. As a postscript, the comments linked in the "illusion" claim of the guidelines are very interesting. Several of them are pointing out distinctly un-HN like behavior, though others point out things that have already become normalized on HN. The frog is boiled slowly. [0] "Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills." -- last guideline at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html