There is something natural about HN. Something in the way that it has grown, slow and organically. I can not imagine that a handful of threads started by cele

There is something natural about HN. Something in the way that it has grown, slow and organically. I can not imagine that a handful of threads started by celebrities would increase the value of HN significantly. But I could see a handful of celebrity threads bringing in large groups of new users, which I think could threaten the community's standards of comment quality. I've never successfully grown a community, but my personal theory is start with a quality base, and slowly trickle in new users so that they are able to naturally recognize the expectations of the community through existing comments. If you have a big influx of new users, you have a big influx of new comments with no understanding of what a good comment is.