Ask HN: What on Earth is Wrong With HN
Ok, there is some hyperbole there, but this is a competitive time :)
PG talks in some of his articles, well almost expects, that one day will come when the quality of HN dilutes slightly. I am not in any way suggesting that it has, but I am wondering if the rate of expansion is too fast for the "natives" to "assimilate" the new comers.
You might see this in the up voting and down voting of comments, which really is the currency of this place, not in the way that money is, but in the way that wrongly upvoted comments tend to attract more upvotes due to crowd behaviour and the opositive for downvotes.
The quality of submissions has remained intact however. The best do get upvoted. Some which perhaps should do not, but the difference is minimal. With comments however, maybe I am alone in thinking so, but, the atmosphere seems to be much different than it was a year ago.
Maybe this is the newbie delusion which PG talks about, but I am not a newbie. Maybe this is instead what PG follows after talking about the newbie delusion, that is, the real thing.
First of all, is that so?
Second of all, can anything be done about it, or should we just accept that so is the way we are?
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Your motivation for this thread should be pointed out, for those that are taking this perhaps more seriously than it should be: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1627749.
At any rate, you're a less productive amichail, which is saying something. Find something that will knock you down a few pegs, do it several more times, and try to acknowledge that your tongue does not rival Midas.
To reiterate: between the language barrier and your somewhat tumultuous thoughts, your message does not always come across as you intend it to. When your message is transmitted with full fidelity, you often still do not have any substance. You possess such an abysmal signal to noise ratio that it is laughable that you find yourself questioning the quality with HN.
The good thing about losing sight of HN for a few months is, when you get back, it doesn't take long until someone questions the quality of comments and/or submissions and you recognize nothing really changed. Think about quality like tides at a beach.