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It isn't always warm, but it's definitely better. Also, posts are usually not as low effort as in other communities.

• globular-toast 5y ago
  Better than what? I don't appreciate "warmth" when I'm looking for insightful discussion about technology. If I need that I will leave the computer.
  • moritonal 5y ago
    It's easy to forget how in other forums you must become hardened against people often telling you to get hurt or otherwise perish. The admins do a heroic job on the whole preventing that culture here.
    • throwaway0a5e 5y ago
      >It's easy to forget how in other forums you must become hardened against people often telling you to get hurt or otherwise perish When slurs, personal attacks and incivility are fair game you can't attack inconvenient opinions by complaining that they are not presented in a high enough brow manner. This tilts the balance of power in favor of whatever the local majority opinion is (as if voting wasn't a strong enough mechanism for doing that) because every subjective rule you can possibly use to exclude commentary will always get wielded harder against the minority opinion.
  • muzani 5y ago
    The default is "hot". People yelling at each other about not using bcrypt or using too much Java. Warm is nice. HN can lean cold, which is not so bad either.