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I generally don't find heavily up voted stuff too useful because it represents the HN monoculture / groupthink. I'd rather highlight comments that are controve
by p4wnc6 10y ago
I generally don't find heavily up voted stuff too useful because it represents the HN monoculture / groupthink.
I'd rather highlight comments that are controversial: they have been voted on a large number of times, with nearly 50% up vote and 50% down vote.
Those comments at least usually represent an interesting diff from either what I already think or what is stock monoculture canon on HN.
- throwawaymaroon 10y agoTo make that kind of comment regularly you also have to be willing to make the kind of comment that gets buried in downvotes, which eventually gets you moderator attention.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoYep. I try to work from the bottom up on threads likely to have group-think. The troll stuff is usually grayed out by the time I get to it. The answers with little info are easy to skim over. That gets to the dissenting opinions quickly.