On: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

[Gareth321]

You aren’t kidding. Add r/Psychology to that list. It’s all bad social science studies now.

“Study Proves Republicans are Dumb”

[vGPU → Gareth321]

I’m fairly certain that rephrased versions of “Study Proves Trump Voters have low IQ” are posted there just about weekly, and the rest is just psychedelic research.

It’s one of the laws of the internet: as the size of a community grows, the quality approaches a stadium full of drunk sweaty sports fans.

[r3vo → vGPU]

One of the reasons I hope hacker news stays relatively obscure. Fingers crossed

[vGPU → r3vo]

Agreed. I’ve definitely already noticed a significant decline in comment quality here since the Reddit debacle.

[tdhz77 → vGPU]

^^ Comments like this are low value. “Things are getting bad”. No proof or evidence.