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> On the plus side, the discussions that happen in Comments are definitely still good.

Maybe its me, but I've found a lot more comments within the past fortnight or so grating on me than previously. Remarkably, every time I checked the submitter, they'd been on Hacker News for about a year and a half at least. And by grating I basically mean rude and unhelpful.

>>anc202+(OP)
I've noticed a lot of the top voted comments lately are riddled with poor thinking and logical fallacies. I'm not sure if the smartest commenters are leaving, but the crowd definitely seems to be rewarding nonsense.

>>anc202+(OP)
A few times I've found the account is over a year old, but comments only started recently. If the front page of their comments was filled (i.e. 10 comments), I probably wouldn't have noticed this. BTW they didn't seem especially bad, just the typical newbie comments before someone replied "Please elaborate".

>>10ren+J4
It might be worth doing one more version considering the ratings only from people who have contributed significantly to the culture (their karma along with age should reflect reasonably well i guess)