Comment by dang

I wouldn't call this documentation in the sense that I thought you meant the word.

These are examples of users complaining about HN in the way many users always complain about HN. You'll find countless such comments making general claims about how the site is "all X" or "has become Y" or "never allows any Z".

The problem is that these perceptions are not reliable—people base them on datapoints that they happen to notice because they dislike them so much [1], and from there they jump to general conclusions.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...