Ask HN: What the heck just happened to hacker news?

[moon_of_moon]

This thread about chicken: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14076320

Doesn't make any sense being on HN at all. The comments don't belong here either.

The only reason I can think of for it being on the front page is a shill army using it to generate karma between themselves... That, or HN jumped the shark so to speak.

[bediger4000]

I don't think it's a shill army. I think it's just a pointed lesson in the modalities of argument that show up on Hacker News.

[gus_massa]

I also think it's not a shill army. Many recent discussions have more opinions than technical facts, so the quality of the discussion decrease. It's a cycle, the quality of the discussion usually improve after a few month. (There is a nice graph in an old comment...)

To the OP: Anyway, if you see something shady you can send an email to the mods [e-mail] , so they can check the patterns of the discussion.

[moon_of_moon]

Notice how the shills tend to have security related github accounts. (see the top voted comment. And a chinese blog that too.)