HN is attracting more and more new users who enjoy making low quality posts on hot button topics, which also triggers other previously well-behaved users to make low quality posts in response.

Posting a "hot take" on HN was unheard of for a very long time. Now people do it regularly with no shame.

I've never really understood why people write those, and even less why people read them. It's admitting from the outset that you don't know what you're talking about. Why embarrass yourself? Why waste your own time?

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dang 3 days ago | parent [-]

I think you guys are succumbing to a nostalgia-filtered view of HN's past.

	▲	NaOH 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		An unspoken inference from when you've made posts like this is that HN has largely only changed in terms of scale, that the overall community culture has been relatively static. What are the indicators that would catch your attention to indicate a cultural shift, whether they are improving the site or diminishing it?
	▲	rswail 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Rose colored glasses are just a manual version of f.lux But more seriously, I mentioned the "dotcom boom" to someone today, they didn't know what it was, because they were 2 at the time. I had to explain it as a combination of the GFC and the current AI boom.