I'm going to assume you're not trolling, based on your long account history, and point out that this site is evolving, much like everything else on the internet. It's certainly not the "Startup News" it was when I signed up, and at this point this site is popular enough to a point where even the definition of "Hacker News" will probably shift slightly.

But that's Ok. The important thing is, we're evolving together. (Ok, it's technically a benevolent dictatorship, but you get the idea.)

If you want to see this board have different sorts of content, poke around and submit interesting content for us to read. I assure you, Hacker News does not have a monopoly on interesting technical content. The reason it does get the quality of content that it does is that people like you are free to submit stuff that's cool. And if this week is a little slow, forgive us a bit - it's the holidays, and people are distracted from reading technical papers for a bit.

If next week you still find we're not the droids you're looking for, there's plenty of other great tech sites on the internet - but I sincerely hope you don't leave because you felt you couldn't make a difference here. Try to think positive - I think it'll help both your enjoyment here and people's reactions to your comments - and have a great holiday.

I feel like that at some point we're going to need something like subreddits to help the community along.