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HN seems to avoid this to some degree. Or at at least you can't just express outrage without a reasonable explanation because the community is pretty good at do
by ineedasername 5y ago
HN seems to avoid this to some degree. Or at at least you can't just express outrage without a reasonable explanation because the community is pretty good at downvoting useless and low effort posts. I suppose outrage may still be common (see recent Apple news) but it seems geared toward more productive conversation than just shouting at each other.
- Barrin92 5y agoHN also visually avoids gamifying everything. Pay attention to how interactive likes on a site like Twitter are, it's literally a little heart that pops up. A lot of those sites look like slot machines.
- ineedasername 5y agoI hadn't thought like that about HN but you're right: up/down vote arrows are not visually prominent, public votes counts aren't visible. I think it also helps that most people on HN are cynical enough about useless internet points that they don't chasing them all that much just to boost the number.