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Of course, I have many intellectual convo with people under pseudonyms. But HN isn’t Twitter. And just because HN has many intellectual users who write under ps
by maram 7y ago
Of course, I have many intellectual convo with people under pseudonyms. But HN isn’t Twitter. And just because HN has many intellectual users who write under pseudonyms it doesn’t mean the same thing will happen in twitter!
Twitter is:
1. Used by the mainstream almost globally (HN is used by the fringe)
2. Real-time global messages in all languages
3. Used by the president
I can go on but to because of these reasons the value of tweet cannot be based on the actual conversation.
HN iS different because of the hard work of YC partners and the caliber of HN community. HN would have been occupied by thugs long time ago to do astroturfing on behalf of big companies.
Here is an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22383746 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22383746