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Hacker News is Reddit with a thesaurus. This is only an insult to Hacker News if you think Reddit is bad, but they clearly share the same dynamic brought on by
by minikites 6y ago
Hacker News is Reddit with a thesaurus. This is only an insult to Hacker News if you think Reddit is bad, but they clearly share the same dynamic brought on by the perverse incentives of the "karma" system and individually threaded comments. Classic discussion forum interfaces (e.g. vBulletin or phpBB) allow for much richer and calmer communication.
- imtringued 6y agoThe problem with the karma system is that it incentivizes simple comments and appealing to common human instincts. I often regret it when my score goes up drastically because I think that I made a low effort comment that exploits ingrained biases instead of actually contributing to the discussion. I am personally not against the idea of sorting comments based on a score but the score itself shouldn't be visible to anyone.
- minikites 6y agoI don't care at all about internet points, but I do get a chuckle when I notice my karma drop by double digits in a short time period because it means someone was mad enough at one of my comments that they went to my profile page and downvoted everything they could.
- ghgdynb1 6y agoI think “Reddit but smarter” is a legitimate point of differentiation. I gave up Reddit for HN because despite all the issues you probably have in mind, the average quality of interaction and information is marginally better here.
- Grustaf 6y agoAlternatively, reddit but nerdier and less fun. Granted I've only seen wallstreetbets which might not be entirely representative...