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Comment by trapped | Hacker News Reader

Hacker news is changing. It was bound to happen as it became more popular and global. Increased popularity has resulted in poor quality content submission and discussion.

Most of the time I am seeing content submitted and discussed which does not comply HN submission requirement. "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity"

Source - http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

What can be done to save HN from being another Reddit clone?

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Well, since you're so interested in upholding the guidelines:

   If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)

I don't think that quote is relevant anymore. pg wrote that in 2009, and both HN and reddit have changed a lot over the past five years. If you asked him what he thinks about that topic today I'm sure he would say something different.

The fact that these stories get submitted and discussed would appear to suggest that they gratify other people's intellectual curiosity, just not your own. Perhaps you should submit more of the kind of content you want read?

I think what you're really looking for is a content filter.

Usenet has been dying for over 20 years!

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