What's stopping HN going the way of Reddit/Digg/Slashdot?
gaika: PG http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=196547 :"1. The kind of stories that are most popular on reddit and digg (pictures and politics) are banned here.2. Because that kind of stuff is banned, the average digg/reddit reader, if he comes across News.YC, finds the content boring and leaves.3. The custom of the site is to be civil in comments.4. Votes on comments affect karma.5. Trolls are fairly rapidly banned. The only reason Giles hasn't already been banned is that I thought perhaps he was joking."