Online Content Quality

Comments lament the abundance of low-quality 'crap' or uninteresting content across platforms like Hacker News and social media, while expressing frustration over the scarcity of truly valuable or engaging material and the need for better curation.

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Sample Comments

kordlessagain Oct 3, 2017 View on HN

Finding "interesting" content would be a more accurate description of the problem.

current_call Feb 20, 2015 View on HN

New content is overrated anyway.

johhns4 Sep 27, 2023 View on HN

so what's your go to for content that isn't crap?

Nux Nov 11, 2012 View on HN

lol! Don't do that, show some real content instead. :-)

coding123 Jul 4, 2023 View on HN

Interesting content for a site filled with taboola crap.

hnarayanan Nov 26, 2017 View on HN

You need at least a bit of interesting content!

adfm Sep 12, 2024 View on HN

“Millions of content, but only a handful that's useful”This doesn’t read right. Something is missing.

xigoi Jun 1, 2023 View on HN

The service itself isn't valuable, the content is.

virtue3 Jun 21, 2023 View on HN

It's fine, we can just develop AIs to find good content for us! /s

manigandham Mar 15, 2017 View on HN

"content" has a very wide meaning and there are millions of people who have worked incredibly hard on content you read and watch online.Surely you understand this? Or are you only consuming meme gifs or something?