One of the reasons why I ditched Reddit for HN is because every time (yes, every single time) a Yegge article was posted, the comment thread was inevitably 90%

One of the reasons why I ditched Reddit for HN is because every time (yes, every single time) a Yegge article was posted, the comment thread was inevitably 90% whining or wisecracking about the length. I think it's a good measure of how much a community has degraded.