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Re:Why I don't talk about where I work and why its important... by preommr on Monday December 03, 2018 @08:34AM (#18588597)
I started following HN more seriously over the past few days and I keep seeing lots of pointless and irrelevant articles make the front page. I could've sworn it was like this 4-5 years ago.
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Re:Why I don't talk about where I work and why its important... by pc86 on Monday December 03, 2018 @08:40AM (#18588627)
> Please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.[0]

"Turning into Reddit" also includes anything about quality generally decreasing over time. I have been on HN for more than 6 years on this account and another year or two longer on my previous account and while there's certainly an ebb and flow to the overall quality and the focus definitely changes, HN is not any drastically better or worse than it was half a decade ago.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Why I don't talk about where I work and why its important... by nindalf on Monday December 03, 2018 @08:45AM (#18588662)
I agree with this. One question though - is it impossible for HN to degrade? Would we even know if it had?
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Re:Why I don't talk about where I work and why its important... by coatmatter on Monday December 03, 2018 @08:46AM (#18588667)
> "Turning into Reddit" also includes anything about quality generally decreasing over time.

That's not on the page you linked - is that your own interpretation of a one-liner?

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Re:Why I don't talk about where I work and why its important... by pjc50 on Monday December 03, 2018 @09:19AM (#18588890)
It only takes a few votes to get something to the front page. Since there are no real "downvotes" for stories (although there's no consequence for heavy use of "flag"), the best cure is to go through /new and upvote stuff that looks interesting.
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