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A comment on Ask HN: Is It Me, Or Is Submission Quality Suffering?.

Re:Ask HN: Is It Me, Or Is Submission Quality Suffering? by bhavin on Wednesday November 03, 2010 @12:02PM (#1865221)
When I thought about the issue, it became clear to me that one person's 'quality post' might be other persons unnecessary spam..

If you look at all the top stories from RSS, its difficult to call any of them universal spam.

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Re:Ask HN: Is It Me, Or Is Submission Quality Suffering? by benologist on Wednesday November 03, 2010 @12:29PM (#1865335)
He's talking about the new section:

http://news.ycombinator.com/newest

Lots of spam, dupes etc. There's even at least one 'social media guy' who's added HN to his link dumping.

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Re:Ask HN: Is It Me, Or Is Submission Quality Suffering? by bhavin on Wednesday November 03, 2010 @12:44PM (#1865394)
yeah, i definitely agree!

I would say its the curse of getting bigger... in good old days (before HN got wide attention), only genuine hackers joined. When it gets so popular and big that every major tech blogger reads/acknowledges it and HN threads show up in first page of google search within 40 minutes of starting, there's bound to be some 'Media Sluts' coming over who's not concerned with being a Hacker!

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