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One group dedicated to epiphanies people have in the shower, for example, has 19 million members. Another is dedicated to pictures of cats that look like loaves of bread.

It's those little heartwarming moments, lol! It feels so strange to have reddit culture described in an article like this. But, kindof heartwarming too.

news.ycombinator.com does seem to consistently have high-quality interesting discussion. Is it their algorithm? The community that's built around it? Are you sure Seibel was/is in charge of the form as CEO? Is it not a relatively small part of the YC company as a whole?

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I think Seibel wasn't the person who controlled the forum, but I'm sure he participated in moderating it and knew a lot about it.

Part of the quality is the community that's built around it. Part is the quality is the fact they censor I'd guess around 30% of comments to keep the quality high. Here on saidit we remove maybe 0.05% of comments or so. It's very easy to have a comment or post removed on news.ycombinator.com, it's much tighter than reddit. I think reddit removes maybe 2% of comments or so, and he's probably going to increase that to like 5% to get it closer to ycombinator's quality.