Long time reader, first time poster. Just wanted to say that the quality of submissions and comments is what always keeps me coming back to HN, and it's great t

Long time reader, first time poster. Just wanted to say that the quality of submissions and comments is what always keeps me coming back to HN, and it's great to see active interest in maintaining the quality. You'd never hear something like "Growth can't keep going at this rate forever without ruining the site, though. Between those two alternatives, we prefer growth to slow down. We hope it will happen naturally—that we'll simply run out of new people the site appeals to." coming from a profit-driven site