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Oh yeah agreed, but I think that tiny difference leads to a noticeably different outcome. The Signal-to-Noise ratio here is more than Reddit, particularly Reddi
by alickz 6y ago
Oh yeah agreed, but I think that tiny difference leads to a noticeably different outcome. The Signal-to-Noise ratio here is more than Reddit, particularly Reddit's popular subreddits. As a result I find myself changing my mind while reading comments here a lot more than I would on Reddit.
Also I think dang (and whoever else) is a good mod, which makes a lot of difference.
There's also a recency bias, I've been on Reddit for 8 years and HN for ~3. Maybe my disillusionment has yet to come.
- mschuster91 6y agoI've been on HN for over eight years (just noticed it, how time flies by...), no need to worry for recency bias ;)
- ad404b8a372f2b9 6y agoI've had some disillusionment with HN, having been on it for 6-7 years. The dialog is mostly cordial and respectful but precisely because of that I'd come to put a lot of faith into the knowledge of the commenters. But I realized a lot of people here talk about things they have only superficial knowledge about (me included, though I've been trying to curb this behaviour) and as a result there is a lot of quackery about, well formulated, respectful quackery but quackery nonetheless. So I try to check the credentials of people when they include them in their profiles before putting too much faith into what they say. Now I'm not trying to disavow HN, it's a really cool place and there are a lot of knowledgable people here with lifetimes of experience in complex subjects but there are also a lot of technical topics where the discourse is clearly inferior to reddit, twitter or even discord.