| ▲ | dang 3 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
That's a high exaggeration of course, but in the wonderful old HN tradition of perceiving the site as dominated by $badness, where everyone has their own perception of $badness. I'm not picking on you - it's practically a universal response, so much so that it must be driven by human hard-wiring. I've written about this so many times that for once I don't even know what to link to. Perhaps https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23308098. Or maybe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48427800 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | archagon 31 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fine. Looking at today's /active, it's more than half just based on the titles. (Likely 2/3 or more in practice, but I did not delve into each post.) And this does not feel particularly unusual. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | mh- 42 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(Apologies if you've commented on the following already, but I've not seen it.) The most concerning growing trend I see is comments that don't violate any guidelines, but are flagged to dead. I'm not talking about posters that are shadowbanned, but about comments that engaged thoughtfully on a topic but the rest of the thread disagreed emphatically with. I also don't even mean controversial takes on hot-button issues like vaccines. Just plain old bucking the trend in a thread about AI, transit, housing, layoffs, etc. I've been browsing with showdead on for as long as I can remember, and I'm seeing this accelerate. Comments from folks both you and I respect as high quality contributors here. I don't know what the solution is, but it discourages me (and I'm sure others) from having the kind of thought-provoking dialog I've gotten used to reading here for the last 15 years. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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