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Next to nothing. I scan for links and sometimes find one or two to my interest. I might scan the comments to see if the link is being revered or dissed before I
by sureaboutthis 9y ago
Next to nothing. I scan for links and sometimes find one or two to my interest. I might scan the comments to see if the link is being revered or dissed before I visit. If I'm bored, I've made a few comments. Otherwise HN is nothing more than a link list to me.
- lukevers 9y agoWhat’s your version of what HN is to other people? In the way that people learn about new things, connect with others in various niches, etc—where do you go for that?
- sureaboutthis 9y agoI don't have such a thing. Eventually they all turn into reddit, populated by kids and amateurs and unemployed wannabe programmers. So they are all for skimming only. The last great place to go was Stack Overflow but it, too, is now overrun by redditors and other amateurs and I no longer help out there even though I'm in the upper three percent. There is one forum I still go to but the past year has shown an erosion there as it has become popular among the non-elite tech group. There are some mailing lists which are exclusive but sparsely visited unfortunately. Same with IRC. So its better to be good at Googling and gleaning fact over fiction, not finding a good forum. The same is true of "news". There is no good source for news anymore and you have to do your own vetting, something news editors used to do but no more.
- b0rsuk 9y agoOh come on. You keep coming back. If nothing else, HN gave you something intriguing.
- Gargoyle 9y agoHe said what he gets from it- a list of links. I mostly agree. I come here for the links, and HN does deliver some quality links each day. I've lowered my expectations for discussion to "mediocre subreddit."
- eeZah7Ux 9y agoSame here. The discussion rarely add something really useful to the topic compared to what you would find by skimming through a book, an article, or by doing your own investigation. But it gave me a good, if sad, insight about crowd behavior. Write something that people want to hear and you get upvotes regardless on how true or insightful it is. Write something people don't want to hear and you get downvotes.
- sureaboutthis 9y agoI am proof of that today.