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Crucial distinction: * Individual identities are less important/influential on HN than twitter * The community is much smaller on HN than twitter * The conve
by unethical_ban 5y ago
Crucial distinction:
* Individual identities are less important/influential on HN than twitter
* The community is much smaller on HN than twitter
* The conversation is more nuanced. We have paragraphs vs. 240 characters
* We have voting to squelch really low effort or trolling. The informal guidelines of the community discourage downvoting an otherwise decent post because you don't agree.
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This all adds up to a very different kind of "mob action".
- young_unixer 5y agoI don't think those are the important differences. Reddit has most of that, and a significant amount of subs there are just cesspools of hate.
- unethical_ban 5y agoPoints 2 and 4. HN is like the equivalent of a small, curated, relatively mature subreddit that avoids being discovered by other reddit users.
- anigbrowl 5y agoAccurate, but this is a somewhat imperfect strategy in many contexts. You will probably find this article interesting. https://snap.stanford.edu/conflict/ https://snap.stanford.edu/conflict/
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