Luckily the community largely self-moderates and comments are generally very high value. At the moment we don't appear to have a significant troll problem.
Reddit was like this almost 10 years ago. This is the bliss of obscurity. We should hold a wake for Reddit 2010.
Supposedly if you find the right subreddits it gets better, but since I have HN I haven't bothered. Nothing lasts forever - I wonder how long before HN goes the way of slashdot and reddit.
Some people mentioned this place in a few threads during the whole Slashdot 2.0 thing and that lead me here. I presume if this place ever does go south similar things will happen.
Let's work to keep this place what it is and make it better.
I was under the impression this site grew by word of mouth and that advertising it to any and everyone was a bit antithetical to then purpose of the site.
Reddit was like this almost 10 years ago. This is the bliss of obscurity. We should hold a wake for Reddit 2010.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=reddit,h... (though I doubt people coming to this site actually google it)
Supposedly if you find the right subreddits it gets better, but since I have HN I haven't bothered. Nothing lasts forever - I wonder how long before HN goes the way of slashdot and reddit.