> HN has really taught me how to communicate respectfully with people who I don't agree with What HN is good at is preventing or limiting discussion so that it

> HN has really taught me how to communicate respectfully with people who I don't agree with What HN is good at is preventing or limiting discussion so that it doesn't turn into a flame war by any side. Whereas today's reddit and much of social media/tech only allows one side to flamebait. Reddit and most of the internet 10 years ago was a far better place for discussion. It's why reddit became so much popular than HN. If you genuinely wanted to understand a topic better ( whatever it was and however controversial it was ), you'd get all sides of it. Today, it's just one side. Sure, it was wild, but everyone got their say and you could read up on everyone's position. Now, sadly, most of tech is just corporate/media/establishment propaganda.