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Re:HN is up again by butterNaN on Friday July 08, 2022 @06:17PM (#32028242)
Habitual usage doesn't necessarily correlate to quality, I'd say. People who use Facebook/Twitter also have this sort of muscle reflex developed over time.

That said, HN does have quality content and the signal/noise is way better than sites designed specifically to keep you addicted.

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Re:HN is up again by autoexec on Friday July 08, 2022 @06:41PM (#32028611)
It might not correlate to quality, but if the information found at a website wasn't valued we wouldn't be constantly pulling the site up, just like facebook users do.

I'd argue that this site has a good signal/noise ratio by design and specifically to keep you addicted (where "addicted" means using and constantly returning to the site). This site is just designed to attract people who are put off by the kinds of tricks employed elsewhere

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Re:HN is up again by freemint on Friday July 08, 2022 @07:19PM (#32029175)
> I'd argue that this site has a good signal/noise ratio by design

Or so we tell ourselves.

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Re:HN is up again by hoosieree on Friday July 08, 2022 @08:04PM (#32029737)
Internal polling shows that we are all here by merit and merit alone!
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Re:HN is up again by stevenjgarner on Friday July 08, 2022 @11:51PM (#32031441)
I feel the voting process on HN deserves a lot of credit for the quality of front-page content. I wish a knew more about it, other than karma>500 giving the ability to downvote.
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Re:HN is up again by iratewizard on Saturday July 09, 2022 @12:35AM (#32031720)
I think they meant quality from a hardware and ops perspective.
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