In my experience, reddit and other online discussion forums have been just as bad as Facebook at times. Online communities like reddit and, yes, HN, are echo c

In my experience, reddit and other online discussion forums have been just as bad as Facebook at times. Online communities like reddit and, yes, HN, are echo chambers to varying degrees. They can also elicit a sort of inhumane treatment of others by depersonalizing them, sort of like what happens when people get behind the wheel of a vehicle.