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My point is that a lot of them aren’t experts, they’re just educated enough to sound like one.
by walls 4y ago
My point is that a lot of them aren’t experts, they’re just educated enough to sound like one.
- michaelwww 4y agoI get it. Well, I don't take HN comments as the last word on something I need to know
- clove 4y agoTo me, this is why HN is sometimes worse than Reddit. At least with Reddit, it's pretty easy to tell when someone is objectively wrong. With HN, I feel sometimes, after reading something convincing, that perhaps I've just been hypnotized by good rhetoric. I see people making objectively wrong comments here on HN all the time in my own niches. So, I'm sure when I'm reading something outside my niche here that I'm reading BS - but it doesn't read like BS. The only thing outside my niche that I know I can trust here is tech stuff, and that's why I started coming here many years ago. But I've also seen HN's quality go down over the past few years, slowly becoming Reddit-like, unfortunately. I think dang's emphasis on discourse style will ultimately keep HN's quality satisfactory, though, no matter how many Redditors migrate here. HN will probably remain the best forum for discussions on a wide variety of subjects for the near future.
- michaelwww 4y ago> I feel sometimes, after reading something convincing I feel like I get good arguments from both sides here, then it's up to me to decide. The pros and cons arguments are usually better here than any other site open to the public