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Well, to be fair, people have been concerned about HN getting too big and losing its community for at least two years now, iirc.
by harvestmoon 12y ago
Well, to be fair, people have been concerned about HN getting too big and losing its community for at least two years now, iirc.
- rhizome 12y agoAnd ChrisNorstrom's account is about 3 years old, so that fits a stereotype of those with the highest concern over a perceived drop in quality being the newest old-timers.
- ChrisNorstrom 12y agoThat's because newer members have no memory of how things once were. They have no way of comparing the current quality of the community with the previous quality of the community. Of course its older members who complain about this problem.
- rhizome 12y agoHeh, the crux of my point was the concept of "the newest older members."
- stonemetal 12y agoThere is a bit of survivorship bias at play. People who complain and don't see things improve leave. The only ones left are the ones who didn't have a problem.
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- im3w1l 12y agoI seem to recall the "don't claim hn is turning into reddit" already when I signed up 3 years ago. Sure enough, a little manual "webarchive blame", shows that that text appeared in 2009 already. [0] [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20090712034454/http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://web.archive.org/web/20090712034454/http://ycombinato...