It's been a slow transformation, but one that nevertheless has been happening as reddit itself devolves and people on that platform look for alternate homes.
But for what it's worth, the moderation team (dang etc) has been doing a good job of clamping down on unproductive or non-contributing comments. And I think the best we can do at this point is to just downvote or flag (as appropriate) anything that either doesn't contribute or just goes against the spirit of HN.
Anyway, this is entirely off topic. If my point is well made, you and I should both be flagged to death for breaking an HN rule about meta discussion.
At least images can't be embedded in posts here. The overemphasis on images and videos in Reddit's redesign turned practically every community into a mess of low-hanging memes.
Every article about some kind of research is met with low-effort "this sucks" comments. "This headline sucks." "This research sucks." "This sample size sucks." The comments are never enlightening, they should probably just be removed unless the poster is willing to elaborate using more than two sentences.
eganist|3 years ago
But for what it's worth, the moderation team (dang etc) has been doing a good job of clamping down on unproductive or non-contributing comments. And I think the best we can do at this point is to just downvote or flag (as appropriate) anything that either doesn't contribute or just goes against the spirit of HN.
Anyway, this is entirely off topic. If my point is well made, you and I should both be flagged to death for breaking an HN rule about meta discussion.
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