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0 pointsdrats15y ago0 comments

I think you know what I mean. If I'd just said the article was immature and silly and doesn't belong on HN because of its outrageous tone my feeling is that I'd be downvoted, as it's happened before, so I made my criticism more oblique.[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-censorship

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raganwald15y ago

I didn't know what you meant. But that's by the by. A larger question has to do with HN changing as its userbase changes. Things change. Sometimes for the worse:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Eternal_Septe... http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2008/05/summon-monsters-ope...

And sometimes for the better. There was a time when the PC web was all about the newcomers, the barbarians beating at the gates of the establishment. The web was the same way. I can't rule out the possibility that if HN is flooded with newcomers, some of them might be vandals wrecking everything, but some of them might also be ushering in a new age, the new new thing.

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