Unapolgetically meta, but has anyone else noticed the rise of what I'll call "Reddit style" comments on HN recently? Subjectively, I've noticed more and more joke comment threads that a year ago, were never seen here.
That's the exact reason why I moved away from reddit some time ago. Reddit used to have insightful comments and debate, but it deteriorated into knee jerk one liners and pun threads (at least in the main subs)
Sadly the same trend is noticeable on hackernews too lately, still very rarely but it seems to become more common.
I absolutely have. It could be that reddit trains people to automatically think of puns for social gratification. It could be also because HN is basically a subreddit, and people automatically associate this format with puns and cynical one liners.
It's been known since the days of BBS's that communities get worse as they get bigger.
hellbanner|10 years ago
neppo|10 years ago
Sadly the same trend is noticeable on hackernews too lately, still very rarely but it seems to become more common.
shpx|10 years ago
It's been known since the days of BBS's that communities get worse as they get bigger.
DanBC|10 years ago
unknown|10 years ago
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clusterfoo|10 years ago