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https://www.wykop.pl https://www.wykop.pl is probably the biggest Polish site that gathers best experts from most of the industries, to provide comments on the

by _a1_ 6y ago

https://www.wykop.pl https://www.wykop.pl is probably the biggest Polish site that gathers best experts from most of the industries, to provide comments on the newest political, religious, science and engineering news from all around the world. The comments posted by users of wykop.pl are often cited in other sites. ...at least that's what everyone on this site would like to think. In reality, it's just a digg.com clone, before it started to suck ;) (even name is a reference to digg, 'wykop' means 'a dig site', or 'to dig')

tester34 6y ago
This page is terrible, heavily biased and almost all discussions that occur there are fundamentally flawed due to basics of basics of logical fallacies. It's one of those websites that makes you lose faith in people e.g when you read popular takes about Bill Gates and COVID related stuff, it's pretty sad. I bet that just reading titles from the front page for a 3 months would affect your happines cuz majority of headlines there are sad stories, provocative titles about politics, religion, men and women relations with heavy biass towards one side, generally a lot of junk It's sad that this is one of the biggest ""discussion"" happening sites in the Polish internet.
- RicoElectrico 6y ago
  > This page is terrible, heavily biased and almost all discussions that occur there are fundamentally flawed due to basics of basics of logical fallacies. Agree but only partially, you just have not to browse the front page and Wykopalisko (= queue on Digg) - this is where tinfoil hatters, right-wing nutjobs and paid trolls thrive. The sine qua non of browsing wykop.pl and retaining sanity is - blacklist tags (like #polityka #przegryw #patostreamy) - browse only Mikroblog (no frontpage, no Wykopalisko). - use uBlock or a third-party mobile app I stand with the GP that wykop.pl is one of the best places to ask for advice on hobby and such. Why? It's less circlejerk-y than specialized forums and people absolutely hate paid shills here. And there are almost no "Facebook mom" type of people. It's also good for local news / local questions, as hashtags of most cities have quite a lot of followers. Ah, and on Mikroblog the OP can delete comments on their posts, which comes in handy if someone is getting nasty. The only comparable stuff would be the loosely defined "sekcje JBWA" ("Jak będzie w ...") groups on Facebook, but many of these groups have overzealous admins who ban people breaking rules, but with no subtlety (I mean, if someone is polite, posts higher-effort content and the infraction is minor, a mute would suffice)

by _a1_ 6y ago

tester34 6y ago

This page is terrible, heavily biased and almost all discussions that occur there are fundamentally flawed due to basics of basics of logical fallacies. It's one of those websites that makes you lose faith in people e.g when you read popular takes about Bill Gates and COVID related stuff, it's pretty sad. I bet that just reading titles from the front page for a 3 months would affect your happines cuz majority of headlines there are sad stories, provocative titles about politics, religion, men and women relations with heavy biass towards one side, generally a lot of junk It's sad that this is one of the biggest ""discussion"" happening sites in the Polish internet.

RicoElectrico 6y ago
> This page is terrible, heavily biased and almost all discussions that occur there are fundamentally flawed due to basics of basics of logical fallacies. Agree but only partially, you just have not to browse the front page and Wykopalisko (= queue on Digg) - this is where tinfoil hatters, right-wing nutjobs and paid trolls thrive. The sine qua non of browsing wykop.pl and retaining sanity is - blacklist tags (like #polityka #przegryw #patostreamy) - browse only Mikroblog (no frontpage, no Wykopalisko). - use uBlock or a third-party mobile app I stand with the GP that wykop.pl is one of the best places to ask for advice on hobby and such. Why? It's less circlejerk-y than specialized forums and people absolutely hate paid shills here. And there are almost no "Facebook mom" type of people. It's also good for local news / local questions, as hashtags of most cities have quite a lot of followers. Ah, and on Mikroblog the OP can delete comments on their posts, which comes in handy if someone is getting nasty. The only comparable stuff would be the loosely defined "sekcje JBWA" ("Jak będzie w ...") groups on Facebook, but many of these groups have overzealous admins who ban people breaking rules, but with no subtlety (I mean, if someone is polite, posts higher-effort content and the infraction is minor, a mute would suffice)