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But it really does seem bad lately. A lot of up votes for reddit-style one liner zingers. Thoughtful discussion hard to navigate. I find myself losing interest a little bit in the comments section lately, but the submissions at least seem all on target.
I'm wondering does anyone else notice a similar slip in comment quality lately? Is this inevitable? Is there a desire amongst the community to turn it around? Is it just me?
Three categories of adult themed I might be thinking of:
"Maxim" style, where it's targetted at males, but doesn't have nudity.
"Playboy" style, which is similar to "Maxim" style but does have nudity.
"Porntube" style which is full on pornography.
Personally I think there is big potential in the disjointed and mostly pirated adult themed sites of today. Three benefits I see of this business could be:
- easy(easier) to gain traction, several sites I know which launched in the 2008-2009 time frame have reached top 100 sites globally. - lack of innovation in this space, mostly pirated content and taking an existing paradigm and switching it to adult themed (playboy does an online version of their magazine, various you tube copy cats) - large profit potential, I know several low(er) traffic sites which are making plenty off ads, there is an IPO potential here I'm sure
Long story short, I have several ideas for adult themed "hacks" which could be big.
But the fact reminds I know of no YC funded adult themed web sites and am not sure the YC program would support such a thing.
I posted this to HN also to generate some hopefully insightful discussion.