If you resolve the abstract humor, I am critiquing the investment as a swindle which is a good example of the bubble that we are in. This is in line with the tongue-in-cheek critique that the item I'm responding to skillfully displays. My apologies that replies to my comment don't evoke the humorless, dry discussion of the merits of startup investment that you obviously came to this thread looking for; I'll do my best to comment without humor and without requiring a bit of thought as to the meaning behind my messages from now on.

The constant, incessant, unstoppable bitching that Hacker News is turning into Reddit makes me kind of wish that it will, just so everybody will shut up about it and get back to discussing news. You should have completed the trifecta with a "Flagged." on a line by itself.

Irony that a community founded around Y Combinator finds its greatest fear of evolving into a Y Combinator success.

Edit: Oooo, a pass! Is it single-use, or can I save it for my next almost-insightful comment?

HN doesn't seem to have a huge profusion of memes, photoshops, and so on that Reddit seems to embody. If anything, we're turning into Metafilter.

pg should implement image links in comments. Pivot and disrupt.

I'd donate a paycheck to watch that nuclear fallout.

We should go all-out FYAD style and have one weekend where CSS and flash embedding is allowed. Then on sunday night, run a script to clean the place up, and permanently delete the accounts of those who abused their temporary privileges. The definition of "abuse" should be an arbitrary, seemingly random one.

Then we will never speak of it again.

Those of us who followed the exodus out of reddit when it got full of noise and shrillness have a sense of foreboding. Those of us who still read reddit are thrilled to see it come to Hacker News.

I bet there is a clear age division between the two groups. I had the distinct impression that reddit had gotten younger when I left.