After watching for a decade, and admittedly becoming part of the problem, I now view HN as a more of a political punching bag, and on a good day, a microcosm for a crowd dunning kruger experiment(search Suez).
I once held HN in the highest regards in places on the public internet, but now I know there is no such thing.
So what's there to stop this community from devolving and earning a negative reputation like 4chan or even reddit?
Should YC separate from HN TO protect it's reputation?
Is my perspective foreign and unwarranted?
(Try to avoid stories with more than 100 comments. It's probably not a very technical story, and if it's a technical stories the comments probably derailed and may be awful.)
> So what's there to stop this community from devolving and earning a negative reputation like 4chan or even reddit?
Dang. Take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23308098
Politics is difficult to handle in any community, especially more recently, but I'm still able to consistently find interesting content and people here, so I will keep coming until that disappears.
HN is, as far as I know, very beneficial to YC, and I don't see why that would change. If you think parts of HN are getting worse, the best response I can think up is to try to be the change that you want to see. Making high-quality posts inspires others to do the same, and vice versa.