Deteriorating quality of content on Y Combinator

by anagri on 7/12/2011, 4:17:04 PM with 4 comments
I want to open a discussion on the quality of content served by YCombinator in recent past.

I fell some of the articles submitted were a useless ramblings by a low paid content churner and didn't deserve the time I devoted clicking on it, glancing and then rejecting it.

I usually use the rss feed to get the links rather than visiting the website and going through top marked contents, but in general i feel content included in hacker news should go through a more rigorous process than being followed currently.

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  • by nomdeplume on 7/12/2011, 4:44:23 PM

    I have been thinking the same thing for the past week. In fact, I clicked around the website to make sure that I was reading the same news I was reading when I first found this site (about a month ago.) I was impressed with the logically valid articles I was reading. Now it seems that the site is turning into another reddit or digg. Sometimes I am under the impression that users submit stories that are really clever ruses for pushing a product or service. It's also baffling why every page is 3/4 filled with articles about Google +. I guess the site takes on a form suitable to the majority of its users so I should not complain.