[wondringaloud]

I've been asking myself that question more and more. It seems HN has been slowly becoming a Reddit-lite. There are significantly more low-quality "thanks! this is great!" comments and "witty" one-liners everywhere.

Not to mention posts like these.

[dang]

People have been saying this since before Startup News was renamed to Hacker News in 2007: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13852

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21755721

[toomuchtodo]

Everyone is a beginner at some point. Community and content shape the culture.