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I'll give you an example that I personally deal with. I have a Tesla Model S and I use the /r/teslamotors subreddit daily. Ever since the Model 3 came out, a HU

I'll give you an example that I personally deal with. I have a Tesla Model S and I use the /r/teslamotors subreddit daily. Ever since the Model 3 came out, a HUGE majority of users are Model 3 owners and they drown out any specific discussion on the Model S or X. Any time I ask a question on the daily thread, I get answers from people who don't really know what they're talking about in regards to specifics of my car. I can't easily ask if anyone's had this issue with their S like mine because 1 out of every 100 user owns an S and all the Model 3 discussion drowns us out. Having a community specifically targeting a small sect of people can be a great thing. They feel like they'll get answers from people just like them.

edm0nd 7y ago
but isn't that exactly how reddit works? Model S owners need to populate something like /r/TeslaModelS and then your issues are solved.
- therealdrag0 7y ago
  Sounds like the implication is HackerNews shouldn't be a website, it should just be a subreddit.
  - blowski 7y ago
    I find the difference between Reddit and HN is the quality of moderation. HN is fantastic at removing the low-value stuff like memes, "me too", snarky comments, etc. As a result, the signal-to-noise ratio is much higher, and it doesn't need loads of subreddits.
    - xeromal 7y ago
      Yup, that's the beauty of not hosting on reddit or HN. You can control your own destiny.
    - krapp 7y ago
      There are plenty of technical and expert subreddits which police low-value comments just as well as HN. It's simply not the case that Hacker News, with its one or maybe two moderators, does a better job of moderation than every single subreddit.
- xeromal 7y ago
  And that's what this person did until they got big enough to warrant their own site. They have plenty of Patreon support so what's the problem?
  - pezo1919 7y ago
    No one said there is any problem.
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edm0nd 7y ago

but isn't that exactly how reddit works? Model S owners need to populate something like /r/TeslaModelS and then your issues are solved.

therealdrag0 7y ago
Sounds like the implication is HackerNews shouldn't be a website, it should just be a subreddit.
- blowski 7y ago
  I find the difference between Reddit and HN is the quality of moderation. HN is fantastic at removing the low-value stuff like memes, "me too", snarky comments, etc. As a result, the signal-to-noise ratio is much higher, and it doesn't need loads of subreddits.
  - xeromal 7y ago
    Yup, that's the beauty of not hosting on reddit or HN. You can control your own destiny.
  - krapp 7y ago
    There are plenty of technical and expert subreddits which police low-value comments just as well as HN. It's simply not the case that Hacker News, with its one or maybe two moderators, does a better job of moderation than every single subreddit.
xeromal 7y ago
And that's what this person did until they got big enough to warrant their own site. They have plenty of Patreon support so what's the problem?
- pezo1919 7y ago
  No one said there is any problem.

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