Any forum that does not frown upon it ends up with a bunch of low effort rehashed posts by people who don't know enough to actually discuss the topic at hand. T

Any forum that does not frown upon it ends up with a bunch of low effort rehashed posts by people who don't know enough to actually discuss the topic at hand. This dilutes an interesting conversation at best, and at worst just makes the signal/noise ratio so low that people with knowledge on the topic get drowned out for the lols and eventually stop contributing. Its nice that HN is an island away from that.