Ask HN: Is the quality of the Internet rapidly going downhill? I don't know if it's me getting wiser or if the Internet is just becoming worse. A decade ago, I could find good, somewhat reliable advice from the Internet. It wasn't always true but it was easy to separate good from junk. A quick search would find the hardcore enthusiasts of whatever I was looking for. Sometimes I couldn't find anything and that was fine. Today is a different story. What took me 15 minutes to find several years ago now takes me hours upon hours. While I can find anything, what I end up finding is mostly Junk beyond Junk! I literally have to filter bad advice upon bad advice upon just plain dangerous advice. Finding the hardcore enthusiast who spend hours testing each stuff is a nightmare now replaced by people who say "from my experience, this is the absolute best" when you later find out their experience is nothing more than Uncle John's 4th friend told them it was great. I would rather have no results then awful results which pretend it's the best results. What's happening here? |