[corobo]

I made no comparison to HN, nor would I want to. I try to avoid having an "us vs them" mindset because it makes for boring conversation. I don't dislike lobste.rs in any way, I just prefer a wider variety of opinions to go with my tech news so I only really pop by when I'm reminded it exists.

For the record my preferred variety of opinions does not include spam and the other repetitive guff you mention haha, I'll be the first on the downvote and/or flag train for those comments. Absolute yawn fests the lot of them.

Anyway I mentioned numbers because they didn't seem to have changed, I'm not saying more numbers = better forum. That would be daft. More varied and therefore more interesting (to me)? Sure, aye. Better or worse? Nah.