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This is how science should be done. Allowing lay people to understand true significance of work by having an open exchange. Wish it were true for most of the di
by paraschopra 16y ago
This is how science should be done. Allowing lay people to understand true significance of work by having an open exchange. Wish it were true for most of the discoveries/inventions.
- JoeAltmaier 16y agoNotice the "discussion" devolved into nonsense almost immediately. Reddit....
- natrius 16y agoI thought it was pretty good. If you don't like the silliness, you don't have to keep reading the silly threads. They aren't hard to identify, especially in an AMA post where the submitter's name is highlighted.
- jokermatt999 16y agoThis is why I love threaded comments, especially in reddit's style. You can just hit that little [-] button to collapse and ignore the noisy threads, and find the valuable discussion much easier. Even if half of a topic there is just terrible puns, usually there's some actual discussion further down the page. Actually, one place I've found is very good to find discussion on reddit and HN is in response to the greatly downvoted trolls. Usually the trolls don't have much of a point or terribly flawed arguments, but the people responding to them actually seem to do a decent job of being serious most times.
- ohashi 16y agoI noticed some, I also noticed a lot of real questions. I don't see complaining about it as much different than just having some level of nonsense.
- JoeAltmaier 16y agoSorry, didn't notice I was complaining. Thought I was making an observation on the state of open discussion on the net. I guess that makes your post "complaining about complaining", and this one ...