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I don't know about depressing but the amount of drama on HN seems on the rise lately and I don't find it all that entertaining or interesting. I guess this old

I don't know about depressing but the amount of drama on HN seems on the rise lately and I don't find it all that entertaining or interesting. I guess this old tune is played out but, I remember a time when things where better.

VLM 13y ago
"the amount of drama on HN" Is it homogenous and if not, is it still a problem? My very quick glance at the situation looks like someone's not too happy about getting savaged because he positions himself as a lightning rod in the past and was writing about a fluffy social topic relating to a fluffy social issue in a fluffy social arena. The whole steaming pile does not sound like HN-type material. OK, I don't particularly care. What I do care is the air is kept clean for a real "hacker" "news" technical article like "Nimrod 0.9.2 released". I don't even use Nimrod and I found it an interesting article and discussion. A tad flamey around the unicode spat, but unicode is a magnet for that kind of thing and even the tiny little flame (like a birthday candle) was vaguely technical and interesting so its at least semi-excusable. Overall a fine quality article, perhaps because all the "yer mom" comments fresh from 4chan were magnetically attracted to fluffy unicorn social hour over there, keeping them away from the "real" articles. There are numerous other "hacker news" articles I could have used as an example of genuine hacker news. But fluffy unicorn social hour decoy articles are fairly rare. So we're in no danger of being overrun. The TLDR being that periodic (intentional?) seeding of HN with drama, kept carefully firewalled away from the real articles, keeps the air clean.
- jimmyjazz14 13y ago
  Yeah, I certainly don't think all hope is lost there is plenty of good stuff still showing up on HN which is why I still come here but, there is a somewhat noticeable trend towards the dramatic happening lately.

VLM 13y ago

"the amount of drama on HN" Is it homogenous and if not, is it still a problem? My very quick glance at the situation looks like someone's not too happy about getting savaged because he positions himself as a lightning rod in the past and was writing about a fluffy social topic relating to a fluffy social issue in a fluffy social arena. The whole steaming pile does not sound like HN-type material. OK, I don't particularly care. What I do care is the air is kept clean for a real "hacker" "news" technical article like "Nimrod 0.9.2 released". I don't even use Nimrod and I found it an interesting article and discussion. A tad flamey around the unicode spat, but unicode is a magnet for that kind of thing and even the tiny little flame (like a birthday candle) was vaguely technical and interesting so its at least semi-excusable. Overall a fine quality article, perhaps because all the "yer mom" comments fresh from 4chan were magnetically attracted to fluffy unicorn social hour over there, keeping them away from the "real" articles. There are numerous other "hacker news" articles I could have used as an example of genuine hacker news. But fluffy unicorn social hour decoy articles are fairly rare. So we're in no danger of being overrun. The TLDR being that periodic (intentional?) seeding of HN with drama, kept carefully firewalled away from the real articles, keeps the air clean.

jimmyjazz14 13y ago
Yeah, I certainly don't think all hope is lost there is plenty of good stuff still showing up on HN which is why I still come here but, there is a somewhat noticeable trend towards the dramatic happening lately.