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Hacker News is a marketing campaign for a VC fund. Slashdot is a business. Different motivations give different options and lead to different outcomes. Persona
by paulcole 5y ago
Hacker News is a marketing campaign for a VC fund. Slashdot is a business.
Different motivations give different options and lead to different outcomes. Personally I find HN a worse community because the motives are hidden/glossed over.
- tomcam 5y agoThe motives aren’t hidden. They are indeed glossed over. But are you telling me that alone makes it a worse community? In other words, if they were explicit you would regard this site as the better one? To me HN is an order of magnitude better than Slashdot but of course your mileage obviously varies.
- paulcole 5y agoYeah, I think the blindness to what this “community” is makes it insidiously toxic in a way that SlashDot isn’t.