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OT/meta: has anyone else noticed an increase in low effort tell/ask HN posts over the last year or so? Seems like there has been a large increase to me and they resemble karma farming Reddit posts, that while they may generate lots of comments, bring little actual value. As a counter example, here is a better post with an article discussing the same thing as this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29479114

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I have. I'm sure there have always been a lot of low effort posts but I don't know why it feels like more recently. What I've also seen an uptick in are the various status posts from SaaS and cloud providers. Each one of these posts consist of the exact same ax grinding and grousing about how awful everything is. There is never any new discussions to be had there.

Those status posts are another great example.

If you peruse 'New' often enough, you will note there are not more in quantity, but, yes, many more lately are garnering upvotes and making the front page. Some brief, some gain traction.

I may have. But FWIW, I'm also very glad to have seen this particular submission. If it wasn't on HN I may not have known about it, not saying that's a justification.

Yes.

As an write this, about 25% of the front-page posts are Ask/Tell/Show HN. (7/30) That feels high.

> they resemble karma farming Reddit posts

But what does one do with HN karma ? Is there a shop I don't know about.

I thought they were just for burning on downvotes, saved for a rainy day when you are feeling in a particularly unpopular, disagreeable or controversial mood and you want to say it anyway >:) bring on the -votes Mwawahahaha.

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