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I lament the humourlessness of HN 99% of the time, but the disproportionately important 1% counterpoint is that this can easily set off an irrecoverable death spiral.

Consider why HN is a higher-quality forum than Reddit for most purposes; Reddit has been overrun with trolls, neckbeards and just very "online" personalities, but the wrong kind of "online". More 4chan, less "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters".

I don't know if one remembers Kuro5hin, the "un-Slashdot" alternative of the very early 2000s. I still have motor memory for the domain in my fingers, evidently. Something like this happened there.

K5 was one of the few sites where I’d actually pay attention to the username of the poster. On sites like this one, it’s me writing to an anonymous, random person.

I think this is because k5 had diaries. It build a community of people who knew each other to some extent.

It did. And I miss it! It was certainly an interesting, and sadly forgotten, time in Internet history.

"Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, you're cool, and fuck you, I'm out!"

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