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Comment by duxup | Hacker News Reader

> I'm pretty baffled to see so much of this on HN.

HN comment quality, thoughtfulness, and etc seems to drop off with higher visibility…. and sadly generally too.

The more visible the more comments resemble Reddit or the god awful knee jerk hot takes you get in local newspaper comment sections :(

It’s a bummer as I’ve enjoyed the generally high comment quality on HN for a long time.

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Maybe @dang could accept monthly donations to pay for a couple moderators? Last I heard they were volunteers.

Anyway, the fact that the top-voted comment now complains about the low quality of answers shows that moderation + voting still help.

I don't think it is an issue of moderation. The bad comments aren't rule breaking ... they're just bad.

I agree with you on this, but I'm thinking more as a matter of perspective. HN is just not a place where I expect to see vicious, anti-tech backlash given the demographics.

It's because tech has become synonymous with woke

Except among left wing circles where tech has become synonymous with fascist. Most of the people I've seen calling for depositors to lose everything are leftwing of the woke variety. Of course both right and left seem to ignore that bailing out a bank and backing up depositors are really very different policies an different issues.

Perhaps it’s an anti-SV backlash? Seems misguided as a lot of the places that you’ll want to work at 5-10 years from now are probably depositors at SVB. I think we all have an interest in a trustworthy financial system so rooting for depositors to get wiped out seems particularly short sighted.

I agree with your specific example as well.

I think the demographics are changing, more so in higher visibility articles, but generally too.

I think the best part about HN has always been the comments discipline. People generally only respond when they have some knowledge (not just “I watched a YouTube video).

That has faded sadly.

The parent comment was fine, it just sounds like you're upset about what they said rather than how they said it.

I wasn’t talking about the parent comment.

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