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Out of curiosity, could you explain what you mean by more Reddit style comments? Because I don't think I've seen too many low effort comments here recently, or

by CM30 9y ago

Out of curiosity, could you explain what you mean by more Reddit style comments? Because I don't think I've seen too many low effort comments here recently, or at least not much more than there were in the past. And while political threads get a bit out of control, my experience there is that the most volatile, disruptive posts tend to get downvoted to hell before they can cause too much of an issue. So even if a certain percentage of alt-right/SJW type content is a bit more common than it was before, it tends to get rightfully buried under hundreds more thoughtful ones.

ConfucianNardin 9y ago
Example of "Reddit style comments" would be low effort jokes. Some subreddits are addressing this by using a convention where you can mark submissions with a "[serious]" tag, forbidding such replies (if there are any, they will usually be removed by the subreddit's moderators). On HN, quite a few of them seem to get heavily downvoted (sometimes enough to mark them as dead, meaning you won't see them unless you explicitly opt in to see them).
- dredmorbius 9y ago
  Different subs vary. But the effect, overall, is discouraging. Groupthink is another significant problem, particularly on topics which tend to gravitate toward ideology. Many economics subs operate this way.
lmm 9y ago
There's a lot more joke comments than there used to be even 2-3 years ago. I would date the shift to dang taking over and asking everyone to be nicer - before that HN was more caustic and the noise comments were shut down more quickly.
hellbanner 9y ago
Comments that are only jokes, with nested replies that are word-plays are continuations of jokes. Good for a quick laugh occasionally but I prefer not to see that on HN (puns + groupthink meme jokes are not what I come to HN for).
hellbanner 9y ago
Here, 2/4 comments on this new post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14709907 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14709907 jff 9 minutes ago [-] If anyone else is using uBlock Origin, at least for me the page displayed completely blank until I disabled uBlock temporarily. Nice one. reply sluggg 10 minutes ago [-] what if I want two? I can't have two third thumbs reply piyh 44 minutes ago [-] When I was a kid, I dreamed of having a functional third arm, this seems like the first step in that direction. reply googlryas 25 minutes ago [-] This is what my ex-gf would call my manhood. Guess why we aren't dating any more...

by CM30 9y ago

ConfucianNardin 9y ago

Example of "Reddit style comments" would be low effort jokes. Some subreddits are addressing this by using a convention where you can mark submissions with a "[serious]" tag, forbidding such replies (if there are any, they will usually be removed by the subreddit's moderators). On HN, quite a few of them seem to get heavily downvoted (sometimes enough to mark them as dead, meaning you won't see them unless you explicitly opt in to see them).

dredmorbius 9y ago
Different subs vary. But the effect, overall, is discouraging. Groupthink is another significant problem, particularly on topics which tend to gravitate toward ideology. Many economics subs operate this way.

lmm 9y ago

There's a lot more joke comments than there used to be even 2-3 years ago. I would date the shift to dang taking over and asking everyone to be nicer - before that HN was more caustic and the noise comments were shut down more quickly.

hellbanner 9y ago

Comments that are only jokes, with nested replies that are word-plays are continuations of jokes. Good for a quick laugh occasionally but I prefer not to see that on HN (puns + groupthink meme jokes are not what I come to HN for).

hellbanner 9y ago

Here, 2/4 comments on this new post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14709907 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14709907 jff 9 minutes ago [-] If anyone else is using uBlock Origin, at least for me the page displayed completely blank until I disabled uBlock temporarily. Nice one. reply sluggg 10 minutes ago [-] what if I want two? I can't have two third thumbs reply piyh 44 minutes ago [-] When I was a kid, I dreamed of having a functional third arm, this seems like the first step in that direction. reply googlryas 25 minutes ago [-] This is what my ex-gf would call my manhood. Guess why we aren't dating any more...