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Reddit has always been a place where you deviated from the prevailing groupthink at your own peril, and if people on HN are honest with themselves they might co
by EddieDante 4y ago
Reddit has always been a place where you deviated from the prevailing groupthink at your own peril, and if people on HN are honest with themselves they might come to realize that HN is only marginally better than Reddit in that regard. Also, in fairness to HN, they didn't erase one of their founders from the site's history after he was driven to suicide by the US government.
- permo-w 4y agoI disagree that HN is only marginally better. on reddit, it doesn't matter how polite or substantive you are, if you step out of the groupthink you get downvoted to fuck. on HN, in my experience, as long as you're substantive and polite, even if you're genuinely egregiously wrong, you very rarely get downvoted. obviously there are other factors, like the lack of downvote for newer or low-karma users, but this is my experience
- taolegal 4y agoThere's something about the direct democracy upvote/downvote system that hyper-polarizes the whole forum. Marginal (read: interesting and crucially under-appreciated) voices are silenced & made to disappear, only reinforcing the absence of marginalized voices. On Reddit, it's done for overtly political reasons. And on HN it's done under the pretense of expertise (a loose proxy for majority "respectable" political opinion of the relatively wealthy tech industry social class).