Exactly - and it's been getting worse. I usually don't comment on this since it may serve to just exacerbate the problem, but this last year it seems like ther

Exactly - and it's been getting worse. I usually don't comment on this since it may serve to just exacerbate the problem, but this last year it seems like there has been a stronger decline in comment/article quality on HN than usual. I'm not sure what's going on - when digg started to feel this way in 2007 there was reddit and when reddit started to feel this way in 2008 I found HN, not sure what's next.