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HN also has much less influence on the greater world, as opposed to Twitter.
by LocalH 8y ago
HN also has much less influence on the greater world, as opposed to Twitter.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoHow so? I mean, what is your thinking here?
- LocalH 8y agoThe general public uses Twitter on a massive scale. They don't generally even know HN exists.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoThanks.
- MBCook 8y agoI don’t think that really addresses his point. Hacker news, like basically anything, is trivial in size compared to Twitter. Despite that hacker news, like MANY other sites, moderate the content it gets posted in an attempt to maintain some level of decorum/sanity/functioning community. Why would a larger site need LESS of that? I think would be the other way around. In smaller sites very basic social norms seem to be strong enough to prevent problematic behavior. Once a site gets big enough that other users are seen as “other people” as opposed to “one of us” things go downhill fast if you don’t start doing something.