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I have gotten so much more information reading the comments than the article. A lot of the "meta" is useful to me. I come here for the comments, and like all

I have gotten so much more information reading the comments than the article. A lot of the "meta" is useful to me. I come here for the comments, and like all the comments, even most of the silenced blurry ones. Sometimes it sounds like a echo chamber, but I like the diversity of this crowd. I think most of the regulars here realize HN has some strong rules. A bit too strong for myself, so I refrain from saying what I really feel. I think most of us know the culture at Hacker News. Would I like to see the boundaries expanded--yes, but I understand most of you are afraid of this site becoming Reddit, and so am I. A bunch of niceties over a article, or controversial subject, is not helpful to me. (More meta coming up. Does anyone know the exact source code to HN. I've seen the old source code at Git. I'm looking for something current. I want to learn Lisp, and programming a site I like would be nice. Or, is there another language better suited (I guess more libraries) that would be a better fit for a HN clone?)

hathawsh 5y ago
Same here, but sometimes the meta is overwhelming. Most big technical discussion boards have hit the same issue: the signal/noise ratio falls with popularity, leading to excessive negativity and a lot of meta-discussion to clean up the negativity. Maybe @dang is right that the negativity actually results from both popularity and timing of comments. That's an intriguing hypothesis. It wouldn't be right to kill the popularity of HN, but maybe there's some way to fix the timing or visibility of comments. I hope that doesn't mean a complicated moderation system. Maybe a new algorithm could help.