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> typical HN, more toxic than Reddit This is factually untrue. Hacker News is orders of magnitude more diverse than reddit. Discussion about Trump or US politi

• bluntfang 6y ago
  >Hacker News is orders of magnitude more diverse than reddit. MORE DIVERSE THAN REDDIT?! lol. hacker news is generally upper middle class white people. I don't think the same goes for reddit. All anecdotal of course, but I think that's close enough to correct.
  • hackinthebochs 6y ago
    Contextually, its easy to deduce that he meant diversity of opinions.
    • bluntfang 6y ago
      My point still stands. Reddit is way more diverse opinion-wise by nature of allowing more diverse topics and less moderation.
      • hackinthebochs 6y ago
        Eh, depends on how you carve things up. There is a subreddit for just about anything, so you can find diverse opinions there. But you will not find reasonable disagreement on hot-button topics where one side doesn't get downvoted into oblivion. If you want genuine engagement on sensitive topics, HN is better than reddit.
• Markoff 6y ago
  obviously I am not talking about default subs more diverse than reddit? it's pretty much just coders, IT guys and geeks, most of them white right wingers, libertarians. nothing wrong with that, that's why I come here, but I am aware I am going into local bubble and I know what to expect when presenting opinions unable to respect different opinions out of their echo chamber the sheer size of reddit already makes it much more diverse, you will find subs for any niche unlike HN, I can imagine local ratio between men : females already, diverse HN, that was good one
• raziel2p 6y ago
  What facts specifically are you referring to when you say it's "factually untrue"?
• meritt 6y ago
  > Discussion about Trump or US politics in general What HN do you visit? Any time anything remotely touching politics shows up here it gets immediately flagged, removed from the front page, and the level-headed comments you speak of get downvoted into oblivion.
  • happytoexplain 6y ago
    I disagree - I frequently see comments about politics that are reasonable and not downvoted to death. There are also many comments/articles that do get flagged/killed, and a few of those seem like they were trying to speak in good faith, but the proportion of rational, surviving political content is far higher than in other places that are not explicitly devoted to political discussions.
• leafboi 6y ago
  Your comment is similar to the one in the article where he attacked and accused someone who is right. Biased people can never recognize their own bias. First off what he said was not factually untrue. This very article proves his point. Fact: There was an entire thread responding positively to fake content while voting down the few people who were able to see that the content was fake. The one man with a substantive reply was literally accused of not being "civil" when he did no such thing. This is 100% toxicity laced with false etiquette. If you want to be unbiased you can't say things like something was factually untrue if there is a fact in the main article literally proving his point. Really whether reddit is more toxic or HN is more toxic is up for debate. It's just different types of toxicity and there's evidence going in both directions. Don't be like that fool who in the main article.... every story and statement has multiple angles.
  • Markoff 6y ago
    it's same here, I corrected poster and was downvoted to hell while stating the facts - popular apps are blocked in China, unpopular fly under radar and can be used or you can use illegal VPN if you insist on using popular app, perfectly civil comment consisting only of facts downvoted to hell, I don't even know why. also pretty sure unlike those downvoters I actually lived in China for years dealing with these issues https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24017479 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24017479