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HN has not been a serious place for civil discussions in a long time. Users are now actively hostile towards opinions that don't score well on reddit. A larger
by iratewizard 5y ago
HN has not been a serious place for civil discussions in a long time. Users are now actively hostile towards opinions that don't score well on reddit. A larger percentage of posts contribute little to the discussion. Many of the early members who helped shape the community have left. The "interesting" posts that are supposed to make up the front page have steadily gone down in quality.
- screye 5y agoI have expressed a good few heterodox opinions on HN that are accepted without vitriol. So, I am not sure I agree. HN expects you to be civil, and abide by the "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence " paradigm. I find them to be reasonable requirements. If you'd like to express more heterodox views then there are a few rationalist-adjacent splinter groups around the internet with excellent discourse over a wide range of opinions. Each splinter group has different overton windows, but they're all of a really high quality.
- martin_a 5y agoSounds like a generic "it was better in the older times" comment, which is highly subjective to your perception. I don't see how this contributtes to the civil discussion we are trying to have here on an interesting post.
- iratewizard 5y ago3 posts up and you're making a pussy destroyer joke. I invite you to go back and look at posts from 2013. Tally the redditor-style lame jokes and unsolicited opinion posts against the paragraphs of industry experience.