Ask HN: Is HN slowly starting to experience enshitification?

Post by cassianoleal » Thu, Jun 12, 2025, 9:17 PM UTC

scdnc wrote: post #38

hliyan wrote: post #12

From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : > Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills. That said, I've been on HN for over 10 years. There does seem to be a slight increase in low quality / low effort comments as of late. That's probably a function of moderation than anything else. The average number of comments on posts have been gr…

I agree that it’s a function of moderation, but I also think moderation is deliberately done in a way to drive/keep engagement; otherwise, there would be far fewer ideological, current-events, and non-“hacker” posts that receive a lot of comments and upvotes. For example my post got appropriately flagged while a lot of other popular post don't get flagged even though they don't meet the guidelines: https://www.hntopl…

Post by seethedeaduu » Sat, Jun 14, 2025, 12:03 PM UTC

msgodel wrote: post #42

Lol I remember arguing with someone on here that children can't consent to the surgery and other trans gender stuff they were pushing on them back in 2018. I think somewhere in the rules it says you're specifically not supposed to ask if HN is getting worse because people say it is so often. Personally I think it had a rough few years after 2020 (which sites didn't?) but it doesn't seem much worse than I remember it.