So no, HN did not ever do better. It only seems worse because instead of 2 complaints about company logos, HN is now 10x the size and you see 20 complaints. There's still a lot of great articles posted, HN "Ask/Tell" discussions, and it's still full of intelligent people. However, it takes wisdom to know when to shut one's mouth, and intelligence != wisdom.
I've been here about 3 years myself, and that's why I try to stay logged out and make my bookmark to HN = /best. It's just gotten far too noisy and I was wasting tons of time keeping up with the sheer volume of (both good and bad) comments.
Re:Y Combinator presents 26 new startups
by pg on Wednesday March 24, 2010 @08:49PM
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Holy cow, you're right, the one a year ago was pretty bad.
This problem is older than I realized. The threads before a year ago were not so bad though. (The 2007 one is just one banned troll.)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=522675
2008 Summer Demo Day - 587 days ago (First comment = snarky remark about the company logos... sound familiar?):
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=276333
2007 Demo Day - 957 days ago (Half the thread is [dead] and full of bickering similar to this one):
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41269
So no, HN did not ever do better. It only seems worse because instead of 2 complaints about company logos, HN is now 10x the size and you see 20 complaints. There's still a lot of great articles posted, HN "Ask/Tell" discussions, and it's still full of intelligent people. However, it takes wisdom to know when to shut one's mouth, and intelligence != wisdom.
I've been here about 3 years myself, and that's why I try to stay logged out and make my bookmark to HN = /best. It's just gotten far too noisy and I was wasting tons of time keeping up with the sheer volume of (both good and bad) comments.