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Because they provide broad context. Forums are usually specified on a certain interest. You come to HN you can discuss everything from computers to astrophysics

Because they provide broad context. Forums are usually specified on a certain interest. You come to HN you can discuss everything from computers to astrophysics and from sex to transport. You go to a computer oriented forum and try to discuss about fertility issues then 95% of the comments are irrelevant. In here everyone focuses on the things they know. Same goes for Reddit. It's a community of communities.

saagarjha 7y ago
> You go to a computer oriented forum and try to discuss about fertility issues then 95% of the comments are irrelevant. To be clear, you’re including Hacker News in the “computer oriented forum”, right? > In here everyone focuses on the things they know. Haha, nope