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> "a vast wasteland of garbage" Accurate description of hacker news right there :>
by ninetenel 13y ago
> "a vast wasteland of garbage"
Accurate description of hacker news right there :>
- nollidge 13y agoAccurate description of literature, and art, and movies, and...
- stephengillie 13y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_Law
- duiker101 13y agoSo why are you here again?
- scott_karana 13y agoFor the gems, of course! :)
- bpatrianakos 13y agoI'm here because it's like an abusive relationship. You think that this time will be different and sometimes you get a sense that you might be right but then you get disappointed every time and realize that things will never be as good as they used to be. Please don't reply with a Wikipedia link to "Whoever's Law" because that would make the abuse worse. The only thing even worse than that would be a link to yourlogicalfallacyis.com.
- coldtea 13y agoFor that 1 in 30 stories.
- RivieraKid 13y agoBTW, I often find the quality of new sumbmissions higher than the homepage.
- eksith 13y agoThis is to be expected. New doesn't cater to what holds the interest of the current user base so you get the things most existing users didn't bother upvoting. Basically New is unfiltered through the status quo of "HN appropriateness" even though that's been changing since the time the forum came online.