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I'd say Reddit. There are some heavy moderated subreddits for insightful discussions, like reddit.com/r/truereddit. Because Reddit has a voting system like HN,
by eloy 10y ago
I'd say Reddit. There are some heavy moderated subreddits for insightful discussions, like reddit.com/r/truereddit. Because Reddit has a voting system like HN, quality content is being upvoted and shown as first.
If you search you can probably find some more subreddits with less general content. And HN is of course a really great website for such discussions, with a lot of highly intelligent people that post quite lenghty comments. HN is probably my favorite website when it comes to discussions.
- jscheel 10y agoAgreed. There are several heavily modded subreddits for this. /r/neutralpolitics, /r/neutralnews, /r/truereddit, etc/
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- cheriot 10y agoreddit.com/r/askhistorians is a goldmine. I love sitting in the cheap seats for some of the discussions there.
- mywittyname 10y agoOn the flip-side, their high standards make it difficult to contribute to the conversation.
- ballooney 10y agoThat's a good thing. Too much of the internet is people with nothing to say, saying too much.
- marcosdumay 10y agoThey don't complain about good questions. Just about bad answers.
- mozumder 10y agoThe problem with places like Reddit is that they rely on users to moderate. The obvious problem with that is now stories are filtered based on populist mass appeal, instead of insightful or expert appeal. Populist content is very different from expert content. Clickbait headline is populist content. A peer-reviewed journal headline is expert content. Which one do you think is going to be upvoted in a place like Reddit?
- lintiness 10y agodepends on the moderators, obviously, but "academics" aren't immune to clickbait headlines (they advance on attention too). the problem with politics is there's not black and white, clear cut right a wrong, but there's a never ending pile of people who insist there is.
- curried_haskell 10y agoAnd the moderators are basically dictators over their sub. We believe so much in democracy that we practice it almost nowhere.
- Redoubts 10y ago> There are some heavy moderated subreddits for insightful discussions, like reddit.com/r/truereddit True Reddit is decidedly not heavily moderated: > This subreddit is run by the community. (The moderators just remove spam.)
- simonswords82 10y agoReddit's greatest strength (the subreddit architecture) is also its greatest weakness. Subs attract groups of likeminded individuals usually with a particular interest, and as such a default tone and set of opinions are preset within a sub before you arrive. If you fail to understand what the preset rules of engagement and opinions are you're going to have a bad time. Worse still, if you happen to disagree with the general consensus of a sub your opinion will simply be downvoted and your voice will not be heard. You're very unlikely to be educated by existing sub members as to why your opinion is wrong with any real sense of perspective because the hive mind has kicked in and you're not aligned with it. The larger the sub, the more this problem is exacerbated as there are more people ready and waiting to hit the downvote button. This means that you're very unlikely to encounter a balanced and sensible (aka civil) discussion on Reddit.
- ScottBurson 10y agoExacerbated.
- simonswords82 10y agoIt was a test to see if anybody read to the end. And thanks :)
- danneu 10y agoA big pain point of the subreddit system would be solved in an amusing way if subreddits were qualified by the creator's name. Example: /r/@theymos/bitcoin. Now, instead of looking like Reddit's canonical Bitcoin discussion forum, you're reminded that it's just one person's forum at the mercy of one person's agenda.
- theswaagar 10y ago/r/politicaldiscussion is one that I frequent
- PascLeRasc 10y ago/r/changemyview is a great one for this.
- nik1aa5 10y agoreddit.com/r/geopolitics