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At a technical level, I'd more or less agree with you. But from a content and community perspective, I disagree that it's pretty much the same. IMHO, the signa
by mynameisash 5y ago
At a technical level, I'd more or less agree with you. But from a content and community perspective, I disagree that it's pretty much the same.
IMHO, the signal-to-noise here is amazing; not perfect, but _so_ much better. If I really want memes or jokes, I'll go back to reddit (and I occasionally do if I want some mindless downtime). I get a lot more insightful information and community interaction here than there.
- jaypeg25 5y agoGenerally speaking, the smaller the subreddit the better the community. I really like the subreddit dedicated to my favorite baseball team. I like the /r/MLB subreddit too, but less so. The noise noise from everyone posting and trying to make the frontpage leads to an inevitable degradation in quality. I remember a while back when /r/cfb was invited to join the front page and there was considerable pushback from members who were afraid the reddit-wide readership would ruin the quality of posts. Kind of an eternal september thing...
- munk-a 5y agoThere is one feature I've identified on HN that I think Reddit could really benefit from. Disallowing downvotes on direct replies prevents users from training themselves to downvote in the least productive manner possible - the spiteful "How dare you disagree with me" downvote. The karma loss limit of six per comment is also helpful - on reddit you may be hesitant to break with generally expressed opinions over how drastically it can drain your comment - here the two options are -6 or banned (if you're really spewing hate speech). Also, a shout out to dang for remaining very good at not interfering except when it's really warranted and then shutting things down quick.