> Does HN have any healthy gatekeeping mechanisms aside from its (ugly) UI to keep it high quality? Aside from the users being elitist egocentric pricks and th

> Does HN have any healthy gatekeeping mechanisms aside from its (ugly) UI to keep it high quality? Aside from the users being elitist egocentric pricks and the frontpage being indecipherable to anyone without a CS formation? I don't think so. But yeah the layout is mostly what does it. Before reddit redesigned itself, it wasn't so bad. Normies want Instagram-like feeds to endlessly scroll through, and they don't like reading because it hurts their brains. So they gatekeep themselves.