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There has been a change in behavior in the past few years, in fact it used to be that you could only become a HN member that can comment thus vote by posting a select number of threads before being able to comment. This actually kept the community on the more intelligent, factual, and serious side. Now it's not so serious.

This used to be the only place that I could visit to get away from Reddit behavior. It seems like the more obscure a social gathering is, the less Eternal September it suffers.

> Meta: recently it seems like the community has been way too loose with the downvote button, but I'm not sure if I'm just noticing it more because it's getting on my nerves, or if there has actually been a change in behavior.

The term "orange reddit" feels more and more like reality as time goes on.

Sure it's not

> "a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills."?

:)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Why does anyone care about downvotes? Is there somewhere I can cash in my karma points here for something actually valuable?