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This effect always seems to come with popularity. Once upon a time, Slashdot had some amazingly insightful discussions, leading to a growth in popularity, whic
by hathawsh 10y ago
This effect always seems to come with popularity. Once upon a time, Slashdot had some amazingly insightful discussions, leading to a growth in popularity, which led to increased noise. That noise led to increased cynicism and eventually burnout. The same thing has sadly happened to every popular tech news site I know of.
The secret is to keep searching for a new place to have high quality discussions. You never know where it will pop up. (If it's a place where people expect to find it, then all the popular kids will go there and make noise.) I wouldn't give up on HN yet though, it still has quality discussions most of the time.
- GauntletWizard 10y agoI'm finding myself going back to Slashdot as of late. It's quality is not what it was once upon a time, and there's still more trolls there than I'd like, but now that it's not popular it's surprisingly easy to find good conversation (and the trolls are usually well moderated)
- braveo 10y agoI would disagree with HN having "quality discussion". I've honestly never seen dang come down on someone where I agreed with it. I've seen him moderate people because they're posting too much "anti-this or anti-that". Not because of their behavior, but because he didn't like what they were posting. And this community is aware that dang will do that, so you watch them flag ideas that absolutely have no reason for being moderated. To be quite frank, I don't really like HN's community, I mostly lurk for the interesting things that get posted, rather than the discussion that comes afterwards. HN is about backrubbing discussion, I don't know that I'd call it good or quality discussion. That's not to say you don't see good discussion here or there, but in general? no, absolutely not.