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Reddit has come to HN

I am sorry, But I did not quite get what you mean here.

The Guidelines[1] say it better than I can.

“If your account is less than a year old, please don’t submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It’s a common semi-noob illusion.)”

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

My account is more than a year old, and after viewing the submitted link I have to agree with his assessment. Frankly, those guidelines were written years before HN actually did turn into Reddit. In any case, in lieu of casca's seniority, please accept mine as a waiver for that particular anachronistic guideline.

That’s fair. Still, I don’t think the occasional low-quality link means HN is transmogrifying into Reddit, or otherwise declining.

A year or two ago, this would have been flagged to death by now.

Reddit is..Reddit. I used to think Reddit was dumb and I started going deeper, and quite frankly Reddit scares the shit out of me sometimes. The occasional meme is funny but HN isn't near what Reddit is.

Scary how?

Just some of the deep/dark/scary/nasty stuff that gets thrown around. Haha.

On the one hand, it's dumb. On the other hand, it's REALLY well observed.

To be clearer, I'm not saying or implying that HN is becoming Reddit. Rather that this particular content looks like it belongs on Reddit given the lack of substance and allegedly amusing animated gifs.

Reminds me of http://thisadvertisinglife.tumblr.com/

The "Reddit" comments stem from the fact that this was first posted to Reddit...and then downvoted to hell.

http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/svh6z/running_a_st...

Interesting - did someone just put this together today? I only just saw http://thisadvertisinglife.tumblr.com/ today which seems to be along the same lines. I'm not sure if it's like a "meme" or which one came fast but themed, curated gifs could well be one of this season's favourite things.

I think the Reddit comment was aimed at the content of the linked website. If only ruining a startup was that easy.

@all, to be honest, i posted this link just to see what kind of response it gets. Expected to be flagged but got 81! Dont know what to say. :)

This blog just made my day.

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