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It used to be slashdot, filled with geeky insightful comments. Then DIGG was pretty good, then reddit was great, now HN. Each time one gets popular the comment section is reduced to crap.

I think because HN is focused on non-popular topics it may avoid the masses of idiots.

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I think this can be described as the ongoing eternal september [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

Slashdot had a grassroots tradition of horrible reference humor and trolling. I have to assume the consequences of that tradition were in mind when creating the HN culture.

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