There aren't enough people on HN to bury what Reddit would classify as a "controversial" comment. Reddit has so many people that anything that swims against the

There aren't enough people on HN to bury what Reddit would classify as a "controversial" comment. Reddit has so many people that anything that swims against the swarm would be deeply hidden unless you specifically use apps to filter by controversial (just means downvotes ~= upvotes). Reddit threads usually read like a circle jerk because the size of the hive mind visually drowns out all counters and contrarians. HN still seems to have a natural disposition for countering, so it's rare to find a thread where everyone is jerking themselves off agreeing with each other. Not to say HN is a beacon for independent thought, but that at the very least there are two or three hive minds that counter each other. So yeah, we have two opposing circle jerks instead of just one like Reddit.