It depends on what you expect to find on and get out of this site, I suppose.
If you're looking for "Hacker News", you're here. It's still here. It's still stuff that interests hackers and techies in general. Maybe I'm not a "real hacker", but both articles you've highlighted (MS CEO and EVE) are interesting to me.
If you're looking for "Startup News", I don't really know what to tell you. Perhaps that's what this place once was (and a lot of it still does cater in that direction), but there's a lot more interesting stuff out there than just that.
I didn't downvote you. Even if I had the capacity to downvote on HN (and I don't) I probably wouldn't have. I cannot say that your post doesn't warrant downvoting, but I am personally very strict when it comes to downvoting. It's not something that I do lightly.
But hey, thanks for the unwarranted assumption.
I think that your criticisms are fair, but I don't particularly appreciate the implication that those who vote differently than you don't belong here. Perhaps the type of content being posted here lately is indicative of a trend to you, but the fact remains that a lot of people on this site found the stories to be worthy of a front page spot. That's why they're there, and in the end they're really just a couple of "general news" articles amidst a sea of stuff I wouldn't expect to see on many other sites.
I won't tell you not to voice criticism - I think that's the wrong way to go about this. But do something other than compare HN to Site X and make snide remarks about downvotes. I see that you haven't made your own submission lately. Why not start there?
If you're looking for "Hacker News", you're here. It's still here. It's still stuff that interests hackers and techies in general. Maybe I'm not a "real hacker", but both articles you've highlighted (MS CEO and EVE) are interesting to me.
If you're looking for "Startup News", I don't really know what to tell you. Perhaps that's what this place once was (and a lot of it still does cater in that direction), but there's a lot more interesting stuff out there than just that.