And so the inevitable decline of HN begins...

4 points·mmaunder··7 comments

When Obama's birth certificate is getting more votes in the New section than the most spectacular funding research I've seen for some time, you know it's the beginning of the end....

http://i.imgur.com/a9NNw.png

2 points: "A $1M seed round's investor connections visually mapped. (quora.com)"

5 points: "Obama's birth certificate pdf has layers to it (wireupdate.com)"

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That picture doesn't tell you how many people have flagged the respective links.

We've always had stories like the birth certificate one that pop up on HN and then either die out or get killed.

Save this submission for the day you see a few of them on the front page at once.

5 points. Come on, that's hardly a reason to act like the sky is falling. When it gets 100, then you worry.

I've been reading posts about how the "decline of HN" has begun since I began lurking here 2 years ago. Everyone relax, everything will be alright.

reddit's down.

Making a new thread to complain that your own link isn't getting enough votes?

I'd say that's a pretty sad decline...

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