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I think the easiest test (at least for my "1% metric") is reading HN comments on articles after they're populated (a day?), and then deciding "was there anythin

by rdl 12y ago

I think the easiest test (at least for my "1% metric") is reading HN comments on articles after they're populated (a day?), and then deciding "was there anything in there which was amazingly good, such that I'd actively seek it out in the future?" The disappearance of grellas is a major factor against this recently.

sillysaurus3 12y ago
Grellas seems just as active as he usually is: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=grellas https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=grellas 50+ avg comment karma can't happen weekly. Substantive comments require waiting for substantive stories, which are relatively rare.
corin_ 12y ago
Asking yourself that question allows you to decide whether the current quality is "<subjective scale from awful to amazing>, but it doesn't help compare now vs. previous though, there are far too many cognitive biases to objectively remember and compare