[Aurornis]

> If you want to see the cleanest expression of this, the place to look is LinkedIn.

It's funny how easily you can convince people that social media is not real life. Those influencers posting content 24/7 are a minority of people putting on a show, not a reflection of the real world. It's such an obvious feature of social media.

But when the topic changes to LinkedIn they completely forget that. They act like the LinkedIn lunatics they see posting AI thought leader posts twice a day are completely average and everyone is like this, except them of course.

Very few people post to the LinkedIn feed. Those who do are usually playing a game of some sort. If you go to the LinkedIn feed and draw conclusions, know that you're drawing conclusions about a vocal minority of wannabe business influencers. These people exist, but LinkedIn is a circus sideshow to the world of business. Not the main attraction.

[nickff]

You're describing a sort of Gell-Mann Amnesia: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_Amnesia_effect

[sublinear]

I increasingly feel the same about the comment quality of HN in recent years.

There are three topics that inevitably get injected into every discussion: AI, politics, and nostalgia. The thing is, I don't understand the goal. This isn't reddit. Few people on here are that broke, uneducated, or impressionable. This site is also deliberately designed to not reward any interaction.

[mnemotronic]

Well, foo. My comment about President Facade torpedoed before it set sail.

[nickff]

HN has definitely experienced a marked decline in quality over the last 15 years, (since the account I am currently posting from has existed,) I know this sort of remark is discouraged by the guidelines, but the trend is substantial enough that it cannot be ignored. I don't think users have any specific goal, but they are indeed posting the same inane drivel and joke comments as Reddit, notably including the classic (and idiotic) 'I mis-read/misunderstood the submission title X as Y hahah'.

[CyberDildonics]

Even the fact that you can't criticize this site on this site is part of the problem.

Also think about the fact that you can't post "comments that are dismissive or without substance" but the titles are zero information basic clickbait from around the internet.

[l33tbro]

Downvote the bots and morons aggressively. Our only salve.