[throwanem]

> Is HN really that bad?

It seems like there are some people trying to drive it downhill in a hurry - I know it's fashionable for anyone who's been on HN for any time at all to say it's going downhill, but turn on showdead for a while and see if you don't start to feel the same.

[JustSomeNobody]

It is right there and I never knew it existed. Turned it on, got shocked by reading such nastiness, turned it back off.

The problem with negativity is that it takes much less effort to be negative than to be positive. And it's much more contagious.

[throwanem]

It is a bit From Beyond, isn't it? No Jeffrey Combs, though, more's the pity.

[to3m]

But this is why you leave showdead off.

[throwanem]

I leave it on because sometimes there's a comment which makes a salient point, isn't a dupe, and for whatever reason is dead anyway - maybe the user is shadowbanned, I don't know. I'd rather be able than not to see and vouch for such comments when they occur, but I certainly don't blame anyone for not wanting to see all the garbage that comes along with enabling showdead - which is most of what it lets you see, in any case.