[Xichekolas]

You just have to understand, for those of us that have been here for three years, this kind of thing gets old. It happens every month or so, and it's always the same plea.

You know, HN has changed... but everything changes as it grows. The original sense of tight community is hard to maintain with so many users, but c'est la vie.

And the submissions go in waves. I pretty much stopped coming here for two months because I got tired of a certain type of submission that seemed to be trending... but I came back one day and found we were in a technical submission era again, which, along with the insightful discussion, is the reason I come to begin with.

So really, it's better to demonstrate the standards through your contributions than spend timing talking about the standards. The welcome guide and FAQ talk about them plenty, and the point of the karma/flagging system is to allow the existing community to enforce those norms and traditions.