On: Ask HN: Where is the Hostility on HN Coming From?

[pbhjpbhj]

Before the meme invasion and death of quality?

[petercooper → pbhjpbhj]

I think many have said that's already happened! :-) I'm not so pessimistic, but I've been a long term user of Slashdot, MetaFilter, Reddit, and HN, and you do tend to see these cycles occurring and it's interesting to see the differing ways they deal with them.

[unimpressive → petercooper]

>I'm not so pessimistic, but I've been a long term user of Slashdot, MetaFilter, Reddit, and HN, and you do tend to see these cycles occurring and it's interesting to see the differing ways they deal with them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_return

All of this has happened before, and will happen again.