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Philosophically HN is different than reddit and Digg in that the person who runs the site is active in shaping the ongoing conversation. While true, I don't th
by run4yourlives 18y ago
Philosophically HN is different than reddit and Digg in that the person who runs the site is active in shaping the ongoing conversation.
While true, I don't think this matters in the long run. Reddit's founders are pretty active, and clearly the decline started prior to the sale.
What I do think though is that the items you bring up work to accelerating the effect, certainly.
(Oh, and someone give the parent a free up-mod since I hit the down arrow when I was copy/pasting his comment. Thx)
- iamelgringo 18y agoThere's also a great number of people that have been around since the site started that are very committed to keeping the signal::noise ratio high. This discussion comes up fairly often, and the level of discourse or quality of content hasn't really degraded at all.
- pg 18y agoThe level of conversation on Reddit didn't decline because the founders were apathetic. They still care a lot about the site. But they are committed not to censoring anything, either comments or stories, and that tends to make the site something of a free-for-all. A massively successful free-for-all, incidentally: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/reddit.com+ycombinator.com/?metric=uv http://siteanalytics.compete.com/reddit.com+ycombinator.com/... For most users the change in the character of Reddit couldn't accurately be called "decline," or their traffic wouldn't still be growing so fast. It just seems like a decline to the small minority that includes us.