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Anecdotal at best, but I have noticed a slow decline in % of quality posts per comment thread over the last 3 or 4 months. This problem is also much more apparent when the article is about something that is easy to comment on (non-technical discussion) and one that has large groups of cult fans and detractors that will blindly support or badmouth any newly released information (apple products are probably #1).

sorry for the OT. apple sux!1

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Anecdotal at best, but I have noticed a slow decline in % of quality posts per comment thread over the last 3 or 4 months

I've also been reading comments like this since I arrived here four years ago (just looked that up, wow is that depressing). Not that it means they're all wrong, of course, but I suspect this is nothing new. Or maybe I'm the problem.

Ya you're probably right. At least downvotes deal with the problem pretty succinctly. After 2 years, this place is still the best online community I visit so I'll stop complaining :)

Paul Graham wrote about this very phenomenon: http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html

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