New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Has the quality of posts and comments gone down?
Ask HN: Has the quality of posts and comments gone down?
4 by gt565k | 3 comments on Hacker News.
I've noticed that both on HN and reddit, over the last few years, the amounts of empty/unsophisticated/uneducated comments and posts has been steadily increasing. The "feed me with a silver spoon" user comments and inquiries that can be answered by 5 minutes of googling and research are becoming so common, that it makes me sad and inclined to quit these platforms. It appears as the adoption of these platforms grows, the quality goes down to the common denominator of the population involved. Not to sound demeaning, but isn't this the downfall of every social media platform? These platforms used to be for geeks and niche audiences, but as they grew, they attract everyone, causing the decline of intellectual conversations and thoughts and reducing them to low a quality of value content. People then tend to migrate to other newer platforms for a few years, before the same cycle repeats. This is similar and common among social media platforms like myspace, facebook, instagram, etc as the age of the population grows, newer generations want a segment specific platform.
4 by gt565k | 3 comments on Hacker News.
I've noticed that both on HN and reddit, over the last few years, the amounts of empty/unsophisticated/uneducated comments and posts has been steadily increasing. The "feed me with a silver spoon" user comments and inquiries that can be answered by 5 minutes of googling and research are becoming so common, that it makes me sad and inclined to quit these platforms. It appears as the adoption of these platforms grows, the quality goes down to the common denominator of the population involved. Not to sound demeaning, but isn't this the downfall of every social media platform? These platforms used to be for geeks and niche audiences, but as they grew, they attract everyone, causing the decline of intellectual conversations and thoughts and reducing them to low a quality of value content. People then tend to migrate to other newer platforms for a few years, before the same cycle repeats. This is similar and common among social media platforms like myspace, facebook, instagram, etc as the age of the population grows, newer generations want a segment specific platform.
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