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		msla on July 31, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation You get a hive mind or you get regression to the mean, by which I mean you either aggressively filter for people with specific qualities, which is apparently a hive mind scenario, or you end up with the same kind of commentators you find on every other let-everyone-in platform.

krapp on July 31, 2017 [–]

So Hacker News is a regression to the mean, then?

vacri on Aug 1, 2017 | [–]

Sure. It's much more general-interest than it used to be, and business content has cratered.

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