IMHO the reason is obvious. The first few thousand users have very high IQ, so t...

HelloBeautiful on April 13, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Another Way to View the "Decline" of HN

IMHO the reason is obvious. The first few thousand users have very high IQ, so they would post interesting links and comments. After many more ppl joined the average IQ dropped sharply and so did the average quality of content.