Poll: How do you feel about making HN invite only?
Seems like the site is growing by leaps and bounds...and slowly losing the quality we've all grown to rely on.
In fact it seems like almost every day now, there is a new thread with people worrying that the quality of submissions has gone down.
The problem is that, getting frontpaged, is so damn easy. For example there is now a front page thread with 2 points. So once HN hits that threshold of crappy users, you'll see the quality take a sharp dive overnight.
So why not make HN invite only to keep the quality of posts up? If you want to read? Nothing will change. Want to post? Then you better get an invite from a friend or wait a few months for the registration to open.
In fact it seems like almost every day now, there is a new thread with people worrying that the quality of submissions has gone down.
The problem is that, getting frontpaged, is so damn easy. For example there is now a front page thread with 2 points. So once HN hits that threshold of crappy users, you'll see the quality take a sharp dive overnight.
So why not make HN invite only to keep the quality of posts up? If you want to read? Nothing will change. Want to post? Then you better get an invite from a friend or wait a few months for the registration to open.