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I disagree that the quality is declining. I think you're just suffering a misapprehension of the quality of old.

>>gte910+(OP)
Comments are certainly declining in quality. For example this thread from a submission I made a year ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1215549

The quality of discussion was much higher than on most posts today. And that was only a year ago.

>>ig1+Z2
Depends entirely on the post. Esoteric technical issues (as in the business model of advertising) have a higher level of debate than more relatable articles.

>>gte910+rm
Compare it to some of the recent articles on Paywalls, there's almost no discussion of business models left.

Instead you have people ranting "content should be free", "paying is an outdated model", "the nyt are stupid" without any kind of coherent argument.