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Habitual usage doesn't necessarily correlate to quality, I'd say. People who use Facebook/Twitter also have this sort of muscle reflex developed over time.

That said, HN does have quality content and the signal/noise is way better than sites designed specifically to keep you addicted.

>>butter+(OP)
It might not correlate to quality, but if the information found at a website wasn't valued we wouldn't be constantly pulling the site up, just like facebook users do.

I'd argue that this site has a good signal/noise ratio by design and specifically to keep you addicted (where "addicted" means using and constantly returning to the site). This site is just designed to attract people who are put off by the kinds of tricks employed elsewhere

>>autoex+X5
> I'd argue that this site has a good signal/noise ratio by design

Or so we tell ourselves.

>>freemi+3f
Internal polling shows that we are all here by merit and merit alone!

>>freemi+3f
I feel the voting process on HN deserves a lot of credit for the quality of front-page content. I wish a knew more about it, other than karma>500 giving the ability to downvote.

>>butter+(OP)
I think they meant quality from a hardware and ops perspective.