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I would also ask, why is HN so monotonous? If you compare 'new' vs what goes on the wall, you'll see a non-trivial amount of Big Tech bias and very good posts
by yazzku 4y ago
I would also ask, why is HN so monotonous?
If you compare 'new' vs what goes on the wall, you'll see a non-trivial amount of Big Tech bias and very good posts (often criticisms) effectively getting censored. Is the paycheck that good?
- sebastianconcpt 4y agoCancel culture fear => Peer pressure hypersensibility => Monotonicity
- krapp 4y agoIt shouldn't be a surprise that most of the content posted to a forum owned by a Silicon Valley startup incubator is related to "Big Tech."
- talkingtab 4y agoExactly! The top "comment" right now is: "this is a clear demonstration of the user's expectation of search having exceeded what's possible today".
- pixl97 4y agoBecause to avoid trolling and arguments HN filters out controversy and most politics. Yea, it's more monotonous, but it's far less hate filled than most forums and keeps on target far more often.
- Barrin92 4y ago> and very good posts (often criticisms) effectively getting censored I browse new occasionally and I encounter a lot of lowbrow substack spam to be honest. Rants against big tech make you a contrarian, problem is you have to be contrarian and right to be interesting. I don't think HN has a big tech bias, most criticism of big tech is just plain awful. If anything in today's discourse there is a stupendous anti big-anything bias (for context, I'm not paid by big tech, I work for a small German company on the other side of the pond and find much of SV culture annoying personally)
- joshka 4y agoThis comment seems pretty off-topic from the article linked to, can you provide a bit more context on how it's related other than the concept of monotony?