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Ask HN: How does HN maintain quality vs. Reddit and the media at large?
- fapi1974 10y agoIt seems to me like the model should be able to scale beyond just HN to improve the quality of discourse elsewhere on the web...right?
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoSomewhat by peer pressure. When that fails, moderation.
- lumberjack 10y agoIn essence, I think what makes HN work is having had a very good "seed" of users and high quality contributions at the very start. Every new user is then peer pressured to only submit/post content of equal quality and will be punished if they don't (by being ignored/downvoted). But also good moderation. I am yet to come across a web community that works and doesn't have good moderation.
- wvenable 10y agoHN quality has certainly declined and honestly some areas of Reddit (even /r/programming) are quite comparable now. But strong moderation and a culture that abhors the typical meme crap that fills other forums is certainly helpful in keeping HN reasonable.
- faet 10y agoLess cross pollination. I think of HN as a very specific subreddit, without the worry of having users from other subreddits 'brigading' as the cost to do so requires registration. At reddit you can come across a post and easily make a pun, incorrect statement, or troll much easier.
- psyc 10y agoThat depends on your idea of quality. Is the repetitiveness of humorless demands for peer-reviewed studies to back every word you write, and culturally enforced cynicism and contrariness, quality? 8 years ago, HN was 99% bright entrepreneurs having genuinely intelligent and polite conversations. Now it's an echo chamber of self-styled 'scientists' that reminds me of Less Wrong meets RationalWiki.
- curiousgal 10y agoYou joined less than a year ago.
- psyc 10y agoDwight Schrute voice False! I joined under my real name in 2009.
- llccbb 10y agoPosts/comments that are pure images aren't tolerated.