Ask HN: How would you rate HN comment quality?
How would you rate the overall comment quality here on Hacker News, relative to previous years, as well as other comparable platforms?
I don't get it. I often find the comments more interesting than the linked URL that generated them.
Compared to previous years? Probably worse, since just about every platform gets worse over time. Eternal September is in full swing by this point, and I've seen a lot more political arguments and barely disguised extremist talking points thrown around than I used to, especially in more controversial threads.
it only takes a few minutes to see how often people are using GPT's to summarise things, or answer questions by taking an OP and punching it into GPT's and then pasting answers as if this was helping people understand things, as if they couldnt have done these things for themselves.
Then there's the ones that dont get detected or reported...
Interesting comments and comments that might spark more discussion often get a lot less upvotes than ones that strike an ideological nerve.
Thoughtful voices are less and less heard, and less and less present.
Unfortunately, less good than it used to be. 10 years ago, there was far more reasonable argument, and far less yelling and ideological war.
I miss those days...