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That's quite a premise! I disagree with it extremely strongly. People mostly don't go back to any HN thread that's more than a day old. So any conversation t
by cjbprime 8y ago
That's quite a premise! I disagree with it extremely strongly.
People mostly don't go back to any HN thread that's more than a day old. So any conversation that requires more than a few hours of thinking can't happen here, because by the time you finish thinking hard about what you just read, no-one is reading anymore. How could that possibly lead to the superior intellectual forum on the web? It's a place for people to share their initial opinions about something in response to news. That can be good! Often people have interesting first opinions! But it's not the pinnacle of intellectual thought.
- nailer 8y agoAdditionally, people commonly don't read the articles posted, then make comments asking about or mentioning things that are discussed in depth in the article, because they want to get in early and get those upvotes before the thread becomes too crowded.
- le-mark 8y agoBut sometimes you get 'first opinions' by people who've thought deeply about the topic for a long time. This is the value. I'd also add that for a site with very broad subject matter, the level of discussion can be quite high. Certainly not as high as some specialists forums (ie LtU). There are a few things I appreciate; the spartan design, the focus on longer form posting (on the order of paragraphs) as opposed to drive by one liners or in jokes. I really get to exercise my writing here, and read others as well.
- Qwertie 8y agoI think the best way to reply to things a few days later is to write a post and submit the link as a post and not a comment so the algorithm treats it as new.