I have also pretty much given up on HackerNews now too. I used to love finding novel and interesting material from any subject. Now I just see the same posts o

I have also pretty much given up on HackerNews now too. I used to love finding novel and interesting material from any subject. Now I just see the same posts over and over again: - "top 'n' mistakes starts-up make" - "best 'n' ways to ensure your start up will succeed" - "'n' qualities that make a good founder/entrepreneur." - "why my start-up failed: lessons learnt" The content is rarely ground-breaking and rarely written by somebody of note. And a more disturbing trend is as soon as somebody write/posts something interesting, there follows weeks/months of similar, non-original rehashed posts/articles. I think point-scoring is an important factor - as soon as the posting stuff becomes a 'game' that can be 'won', somewhere the reason for it all is de-valued... Or perhaps it's just too big now... the book "the story of eBay" gives an interesting insight to community growth...