Rather than notice the trend of story submissions I would be more concerned about the latest trend of one-liner jokes at the beginning of each story. If you all would like to see HN degrade into Reddit or the unintellectual abyss known as Digg, I suggest everyone keep on up-modding these crap jokes and give people more incentive to try and give their stab at humor. HN has seen quite a spike in users lately and it seems as though we are at the tipping point. If the trend is not acknowledged and responded to accordingly, HN will go down the same road these other sites have.
wait, but this one had a point! Post-madoff, everything that somebody doesn't like is a Ponzi scheme, because it's now a concept that everybody thinks they understand. So it has jumped the shark.
I mean, I just killed the joke by explaining it, but this is not just a reddit pun.
