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4chan has better discussions that reddit and hackernews put together. The point is that they aren't stored anywhere and disappeared once they were finished. O

by antt 8y ago

4chan has better discussions that reddit and hackernews put together. The point is that they aren't stored anywhere and disappeared once they were finished. Over here I've been told that I can't have more than one account to post things I don't want associated with me in public. Give that I have a more than even chance I will work in some regime that takes offense to many things I might say, e.g. that I theoretically support LGBT rights, I just don't talk about anything remotely controversial.

Larrikin 8y ago
4chan only has better discussion when you are absolutely new to a topic, since the userbase tends to be on the younger side and they are happy to reshare the information they just learned. The basics are constantly presented over and over again. But people with real knowledge eventually grow tired of sharing that information with a userbase that is happy to discuss which programming language has the best Hello World, whether Good Eats or Food Wishes is better for someone that has grown tired of ramen noodles, how to get into starting strength, which JR pass to buy on a first trip to Japan, etc. The discussions don't seem shallow when the topics are new but they hardly ever get in depth because of the fact that the posts are fleeting outside of information contained in the sticky. There is very little point in having anything besides shallow discussion because it is ultimately a waste of time to constantly rehash the actual relevant and deep information you just posted a couple days. This is when the users are in more or less well behaved forums. You go into some of the more trolly boards and the conversation just degrades even further. Reddit has its own issues with people posting stuff just for likes and refusing to disagree for fear of losing internet points, but the actual content on the site is far superior to 4chan at this point, even though they started off by basically stealing all the interesting meme content from 4chan. There is actual useful information all throughout Reddit, even though I don't particularly like the community as a whole. I would really like to hear why you think either site comes close to the discussion on hackernews however. This is easily the most civil and well moderated large site I've been on in a long while.
- antt 8y ago
  Back in my MSc I had to code a ray tracer for a black hole. all the lovely GR tensors implemented in C and the like. Someone in sci pointed me to the gsl and how to install it on the local lab machine in Suse. Then they critiqued the way I was running the rays. I ended up getting 100% on that coursework. 4 chan is like a piggie bank. You get out of it what you put in.
- imhelpingu 8y ago
  Reddit and hn are both full of pseudo-intellectuals masticating on something some (frequently illegitimate) authority says. Meanwhile, skepticism or different perspective is frequently washed out by a bunch of tools who have effectively been trained to propagate a facile "consensus" as dictated by popular media. So I'll go ahead and do my simple maintenance routine that can be communicated in a 5 x 4 table while redditors read high school tier essays about how calorie io is a flawed paradigm and long-term weight loss isn't possible.

by antt 8y ago

Larrikin 8y ago

4chan only has better discussion when you are absolutely new to a topic, since the userbase tends to be on the younger side and they are happy to reshare the information they just learned. The basics are constantly presented over and over again. But people with real knowledge eventually grow tired of sharing that information with a userbase that is happy to discuss which programming language has the best Hello World, whether Good Eats or Food Wishes is better for someone that has grown tired of ramen noodles, how to get into starting strength, which JR pass to buy on a first trip to Japan, etc. The discussions don't seem shallow when the topics are new but they hardly ever get in depth because of the fact that the posts are fleeting outside of information contained in the sticky. There is very little point in having anything besides shallow discussion because it is ultimately a waste of time to constantly rehash the actual relevant and deep information you just posted a couple days. This is when the users are in more or less well behaved forums. You go into some of the more trolly boards and the conversation just degrades even further. Reddit has its own issues with people posting stuff just for likes and refusing to disagree for fear of losing internet points, but the actual content on the site is far superior to 4chan at this point, even though they started off by basically stealing all the interesting meme content from 4chan. There is actual useful information all throughout Reddit, even though I don't particularly like the community as a whole. I would really like to hear why you think either site comes close to the discussion on hackernews however. This is easily the most civil and well moderated large site I've been on in a long while.

antt 8y ago
Back in my MSc I had to code a ray tracer for a black hole. all the lovely GR tensors implemented in C and the like. Someone in sci pointed me to the gsl and how to install it on the local lab machine in Suse. Then they critiqued the way I was running the rays. I ended up getting 100% on that coursework. 4 chan is like a piggie bank. You get out of it what you put in.
imhelpingu 8y ago
Reddit and hn are both full of pseudo-intellectuals masticating on something some (frequently illegitimate) authority says. Meanwhile, skepticism or different perspective is frequently washed out by a bunch of tools who have effectively been trained to propagate a facile "consensus" as dictated by popular media. So I'll go ahead and do my simple maintenance routine that can be communicated in a 5 x 4 table while redditors read high school tier essays about how calorie io is a flawed paradigm and long-term weight loss isn't possible.