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When I read some of the suggestions here in these comments, some of them exist already in Reddit. Now at the risk of getting downvoted, my experience is that R

When I read some of the suggestions here in these comments, some of them exist already in Reddit. Now at the risk of getting downvoted, my experience is that Reddit is awful: spiteful posts, tons of short sentence replies that litter the eyes, circular meme-like self-referential wink-wink behavior (i.e. repeating the same joke with slight modification). There are some thoughtful subs (star something codex) but overall it has a culture of people who write well but their reasoning stinks. They have strong opinions and make assertions speculatively. I can't read any real estate investment, market or nerdy thread on Reddit without encountering armchair bullshitisms from people who happen to write well but don't research anything, and respond with hostility when questioned. So maybe this is my way of saying, don't change HN too much.

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1983054105 4y ago
Rant: I was banned from Reddit once again yesterday (for the 100th time) because of my harassing behavior. The comment that caused this was about "daily Scrum meetings that were way too long in most companies." I'm dumbfounded about who would have reported this, and who confirmed that this was harassment. Reddit may be fine for very specific subs, but overall it's a real mess where power hungry mods have fun without any kind of accountability. HN does not have this kind of behavior and I don't really miss the lengthy conversations that can be found in other forums.
- hutzlibu 4y ago
  "The comment that caused this was about "daily Scrum meetings that were way too long in most companies."" Ok, but what was your comment? And next question, would you have phrased that comment around here in the same way?
- mancerayder 4y ago
  >daily Scrum meetings that were way too long in most companies. I've said far more hostile things out loud about Agile at my workplace to senior management.
  - gojomo 4y ago
    ...and this tiny fragment from the self-report of one aggrieved party is quite possibly far less hostile than whatever full comments/history actually triggered a "100th time" subreddit ban.
- kefka_p 4y ago
  Trash mods really do hurt that place. I reported a physical assault, some punk kid with an airsoft taking potshots at pedestrians, to my local sub to warn others. Turned out the guy had been at it for weeks all over town. Three months later, somebody didn’t like a political comment I made, went through my history, reported that earlier post, and voila. Banned for threatening violence because I warned people about a criminal’s behavior. Heh.
- avemg 4y ago
  As Raylan Givens once said: If you ran into an asshole in the morning, well, you ran into an asshole. Keep running into assholes all day, you're the asshole. I've been on reddit since before subreddits existed and I've never been banned. Now I'm sure you've had your run-ins with some unhinged mods now and then but to be banned 100 times, you should probably take an honest look at your own behavior.
  - suddenclarity 4y ago
    The "100 times" aside, some subs actually have rules about posting facts and will bann you for it. For example antiwork will bann anyone talking slightly positive about companies, which includes correcting false information. If you're into politics (90% of /r/all nowadays), it doesn't require a lot in some subs.
    - Negitivefrags 4y ago
      One really has to wonder about the mindset of people who would enforce such a rule. Do they really think they are a force for positive change? Isn’t every other fictional story some parable about how the means don’t justify the ends? It feels weird to me that people don’t absorb that idea at some point.
      - Idk__Throwaway 4y ago
        I believe they feel that their ideology is the ultimate force for positive change, and they become so lost in it that they are willing to do objectively wrong things under the rationalization that they're nuetralizing a threat to the idealogy. Again, that's just what I think makes sense and personally believe. It's certainly possible I'm incorrect.
  - tsol 4y ago
    >As Raylan Givens once said: If you ran into an asshole in the morning, well, you ran into an asshole. Keep running into assholes all day, you're the asshole. Has this person never been around a group of assholes for more than a few hours at a time? Some places are toxic and attract toxic personalities. Reddit is one of those places(the internet as a whole, really)
- bhaak 4y ago
  Banned from Reddit alltogether, banned from a subreddit, or banned by Reddit because you were previously banned on this subreddit and were ban evading? There are so many possible reasons for being banned in a subreddit. Mods on Reddit are pretty free to do what they want. There are guidelines by Reddit but they are nothing more than suggestions and unless the mods of a subreddit are racists, they won't do anything. Sometimes not even then look how long it took for /r/TheDonald to being banned.
- PragmaticPulp 4y ago
  > Rant: I was banned from Reddit once again yesterday (for the 100th time) because of my harassing behavior. Did a moderator ban you from a subreddit? Or did Reddit ban your account? Some subreddits have trigger-happy mods that will ban people for everything from the wrong tone to simply holding the wrong opinion. Subreddits like the Lex Fridman sub are famous for banning anyone who posts comments that aren't in total glowing agreement with Lex Fridman, for example. But getting banned from Reddit, the platform, is a rare occurrence. If you're getting repeatedly banned from Reddit (not just individual subreddits) then you really should step back and take a look at how you're writing your comments.
TheAceOfHearts 4y ago
There's a videogame subreddit that frequently downvotes comments from top tier players. It has gotten to the point where most good players will no longer engage with reddit because of the extreme hostility and incompetence. Top tier players aren't always going to be right about everything, but the things for which they often get downvotes are absurd.
- rat9988 4y ago
  Just name the subreddit, otherwise we can't do much with your comment.
  - TheAceOfHearts 4y ago
    Well, in this case I'm referring to the Heroes of the Storm subreddit, but I'm sure it's applicable to other games as well.
CSMastermind 4y ago
This year one of my resolutions was to finally give up Reddit because I kept recognizing the site frustrating, annoying, or disappointing me. Whether intentional or not that seems to be the type of content generated there.
- testmasterflex 4y ago
  Download Apollo and unsubscribe from all mainstream subreddits + remove all and popular, is the key.
  - z3c0 4y ago
    I did this myself, but it only kicked the can on my eventual leaving. Sure, niche subreddits are generally better in their content and discussions, but I still noticed that the same behaviors end up being rewarded. It's the format that's the problem, not the content, and that's the one thing shared by all subreddits.
    - karmakaze 4y ago
      Most subreddits I visit are low volume and haven't noticed much difference in behaviour other than acceptability of short funny replies. What do you mean about the format, isn't it the same as HN (OP link/text and comments)? I do recall a comment/thread saying how HN comments/behaviour was starting to resemble Reddit, so there may be something to that (though I'd chalk it up to becoming more popular/mainstream).
      - z3c0 4y ago
        HN only works because of supplemental rules and heavy moderation, which both look very different on Reddit. Even if a subreddit reaches a good set of rules, enforcement is usually poor, due both to mods being volunteers and a generally negative view towards moderation (can you imagine "Mods are gay" flying on HN?) Any moments of "lightning-in-a-bottle" can certainly result in memorable periods where a subreddit truly adds value to one's life, and that can make the whole website hard to give up. However, after a decade of redditing, I never saw one subreddit maintain that momentum once the larger audience poured in, which always came as a result of the perfect balance. Members of /r/subredditA will hear that /r/subredditB is similar but with better discourse, and then the wave of rufugees from /r/subredditA will pour in, ruining /r/subredditB (eg /r/Gaming and /r/Games.) On HN, if you don't like the rules, you go find a different website.
edgyquant 4y ago
I stopped using Reddit over a year ago and found a couple of traditional forums to replace it with. Sure I don’t have enough discussion to soak up hours of my day but in turn I’ve just started reading more books. My mental health has greatly improved.
- BrandoElFollito 4y ago
  I was there with, what, 1M+ karma and one night, when I realized I was arguing with an immature teenager I realized how much this impacts me. I deleted the account immediately and never regretted it once. I recreated a new ne to engage in purely technical discussions.
chrismarlow9 4y ago
This wasn't always the case. I've used Reddit since the Digg days and in the earlier days it was long form comments with sources and the vote system was actually used as a "this is true" signal instead of an "I don't agree with this". The thing that killed it in my opinion was the layout change to embed media directly in Facebook style. Sure there's always old.reddit.com , but the problem is that because of the default interface change it drives a certain type of ecosystem for submissions and discussions that's not as enjoyable. Tl,Dr when it was primarily a text based website the discussions were better. The gifs, video, meme layout is like junk food.
- mancerayder 4y ago
  I was thinking that HN shows only the writer what the 'value' of the post is (number of upvotes). In Reddit, most subs seem to show that number to the whole world. So if this comment had 100 upvotes, and another one 20, you're the winner, everyone can see it. I speculate it at the minimum encourages subconscious behavior of trying to game votes upwards, and also biases people that it's a good comment. Because your brain will process "100" before reading a paragraph of words.
  - disgruntledphd2 4y ago
    HN used to have points! It was a long time ago though, and hiding them was probably the right decision.
Tycho 4y ago
I use the word Reddit as a pejorative. “I stopped watching after the second season. The writing had become so reddit.” “The steak itself was good but this sauce is a bit reddit.” “Rose Street is a good night out but Raeburn Place is completely reddit.”
- mynegation 4y ago
  I read each of these three examples several times and I still have no idea what you meant, outside of general displeasure. Maybe this is the point. So in a strange twist of meta your examples are way too reddit for me.
- mancerayder 4y ago
  I just invented one: "Redditsplain" v. "To make confident, even angry assertions about facts without a strong backing, but in a literary and well-reasoned style. To make bold statements about a subject where one is still a dilettante."
  - arp242 4y ago
    This is hardly unique to Reddit, and happens on HN as well.
PragmaticPulp 4y ago
> There are some thoughtful subs (star something codex) I had to unsubscribe from that sub. In the past you could find some potentially interesting conversations with knowledgeable responses if you sifted through the noise. Lately, the general vibe has become uncomfortably welcoming of incel-adjacent topics or exploring weird alternative medicine ideas. The general vibe is that "normie" stuff is bad, contrarian takes are default good, and "rationalists" are the only ones who see the world for how it really is. The contrarian superiority is becoming vaguely reminiscent of conspiracy theorist circles. Everything is written in pseudo-intellectual style that makes it feel extra truthy, despite being recycled content from other domains. I finally unsubscribed after a series of posts where posters wrote at length about their frustrations with dating, blaming their failures on women and women's behaviors as if women were a foreign species. The straw that broke the camel's back was when someone complained about taking women out on dates and not receiving sex in return for their effort, which I assumed would have been readily downvoted and dismissed. Instead, it was upvoted (100+ votes) and most of the upvoted comments agreed with the OP's take. When weird incel ideology becomes front and center accepted in a community, I'm out.
- mancerayder 4y ago
  >Everything is written in pseudo-intellectual style that makes it feel extra truthy, despite being recycled content from other domains. I think I know what you mean about that sub and some slightly oddball 'aggrieved men' sort of pile-on conversations. To your point here - that's one of the points I was making above, that I'm coming to realize (and perhaps there's a bit of looking in the mirror here) that good writing can cover up shoddy thinking. I've made a concerted effort to sometimes pause when I'm replying to something, and look things up to make sure what what I just said is true is actually true. Probably because I ran into smart people who questioned things here on HN. One time I was replying to some sort of big article/thread in a real estate sub which touched upon housing affordability, the number of unregulated versus unregulated units in my city. I replied with a pretty neutral tone and linked the city's yearly datasheet in a PDF format which backed up what I said in terms of the breakdown of housing types in the city. There was a pie graph in the PDF document. Well, I got downvoted to grey/invisible and there were a ton of replies in the style of "How arrogant that you think you're going to make us read THAT." I thought it was incredible how the people reacted.
buildbot 4y ago
It’s not really different here… Just recently, with the ballon stuff, sooooo many commenters were super confident how hard it would be to get up there and shoot down a ballon, how a missile would not work, etc. Like, unless you are all in the air force, you have no clue. I did not, and that’s okay, and I just didn’t say anything.
yeahbu777 4y ago
This is such a routine, generalized rant it almost becomes the problem it describes. Short, spiteful condescension that circles back to the authors preferences (HN). No explicit language, I guess, but I learned nothing except some internet rando has a BS opinion. If you did any research you’d see the same on HN. Public forums are noise generators which, once reasoned around, makes it more fun. I email academics doing work I find interesting for the best signal; most reply.
MikeTheRocker 4y ago
This perfectly captures my frustration with Reddit. I can't stand it these days. It's been eye opening to read about technical subjects on Reddit that I personally know a lot about only to see heaps of confidently spewed misinformation in the comments. Makes me question the validity of everything I read where I'm not very knowledgeable. I'm very grateful HN is a lot more thoughtful and open to questioning.
- ilyt 4y ago
  What's worse the well-written bullshit gets upvoted while the actual true answer gets downvoted because "It doesn't sound right" to the average visitor. Not that it is any different for any other social network tho.
- tsol 4y ago
  I'll fact check comments I read at random sometimes when I question their validity. A few years ago, I feel as though reddit was an amazing places for all sorts of niche information from diverse places. There was some misinfo definitely, but for the most part it seemed as though information was posted for the sake of sharing information. Now I find it's not nearly as trustworthy, and people almost always have an agenda
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JakeAl 4y ago
This has been a challenge in online communities for quite sometime. Some approaches I wanted to mention are what Metafilter does, which is require people pay to sign up and comment, and when they sign up they have to wait 30 days to comment. This cuts down a lot of noise and reactionary Twitter type trolling. Another I think is worth mentioning is r/NeutralPolitics on reddit. They have a pretty strict moderation policy that makes for some string signal to noise but due to it's heavy handedness I feel like it does not get enough different perspectives because the least thought out or explored do not get enough attention.
akomtu 4y ago
Reddit caters to the young audience, it's mostly them who go on emotional crusades as they have little experience to back up their words. In real life, you wouldn't engage in a serious argument about real estate market with 10 year olds, but on Reddit you can and do.

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1983054105 4y ago

Rant: I was banned from Reddit once again yesterday (for the 100th time) because of my harassing behavior. The comment that caused this was about "daily Scrum meetings that were way too long in most companies." I'm dumbfounded about who would have reported this, and who confirmed that this was harassment. Reddit may be fine for very specific subs, but overall it's a real mess where power hungry mods have fun without any kind of accountability. HN does not have this kind of behavior and I don't really miss the lengthy conversations that can be found in other forums.

hutzlibu 4y ago
"The comment that caused this was about "daily Scrum meetings that were way too long in most companies."" Ok, but what was your comment? And next question, would you have phrased that comment around here in the same way?
mancerayder 4y ago
>daily Scrum meetings that were way too long in most companies. I've said far more hostile things out loud about Agile at my workplace to senior management.
- gojomo 4y ago
  ...and this tiny fragment from the self-report of one aggrieved party is quite possibly far less hostile than whatever full comments/history actually triggered a "100th time" subreddit ban.
kefka_p 4y ago
Trash mods really do hurt that place. I reported a physical assault, some punk kid with an airsoft taking potshots at pedestrians, to my local sub to warn others. Turned out the guy had been at it for weeks all over town. Three months later, somebody didn’t like a political comment I made, went through my history, reported that earlier post, and voila. Banned for threatening violence because I warned people about a criminal’s behavior. Heh.
avemg 4y ago
As Raylan Givens once said: If you ran into an asshole in the morning, well, you ran into an asshole. Keep running into assholes all day, you're the asshole. I've been on reddit since before subreddits existed and I've never been banned. Now I'm sure you've had your run-ins with some unhinged mods now and then but to be banned 100 times, you should probably take an honest look at your own behavior.
- suddenclarity 4y ago
  The "100 times" aside, some subs actually have rules about posting facts and will bann you for it. For example antiwork will bann anyone talking slightly positive about companies, which includes correcting false information. If you're into politics (90% of /r/all nowadays), it doesn't require a lot in some subs.
  - Negitivefrags 4y ago
    One really has to wonder about the mindset of people who would enforce such a rule. Do they really think they are a force for positive change? Isn’t every other fictional story some parable about how the means don’t justify the ends? It feels weird to me that people don’t absorb that idea at some point.
    - Idk__Throwaway 4y ago
      I believe they feel that their ideology is the ultimate force for positive change, and they become so lost in it that they are willing to do objectively wrong things under the rationalization that they're nuetralizing a threat to the idealogy. Again, that's just what I think makes sense and personally believe. It's certainly possible I'm incorrect.
- tsol 4y ago
  >As Raylan Givens once said: If you ran into an asshole in the morning, well, you ran into an asshole. Keep running into assholes all day, you're the asshole. Has this person never been around a group of assholes for more than a few hours at a time? Some places are toxic and attract toxic personalities. Reddit is one of those places(the internet as a whole, really)
bhaak 4y ago
Banned from Reddit alltogether, banned from a subreddit, or banned by Reddit because you were previously banned on this subreddit and were ban evading? There are so many possible reasons for being banned in a subreddit. Mods on Reddit are pretty free to do what they want. There are guidelines by Reddit but they are nothing more than suggestions and unless the mods of a subreddit are racists, they won't do anything. Sometimes not even then look how long it took for /r/TheDonald to being banned.
PragmaticPulp 4y ago
> Rant: I was banned from Reddit once again yesterday (for the 100th time) because of my harassing behavior. Did a moderator ban you from a subreddit? Or did Reddit ban your account? Some subreddits have trigger-happy mods that will ban people for everything from the wrong tone to simply holding the wrong opinion. Subreddits like the Lex Fridman sub are famous for banning anyone who posts comments that aren't in total glowing agreement with Lex Fridman, for example. But getting banned from Reddit, the platform, is a rare occurrence. If you're getting repeatedly banned from Reddit (not just individual subreddits) then you really should step back and take a look at how you're writing your comments.

TheAceOfHearts 4y ago

There's a videogame subreddit that frequently downvotes comments from top tier players. It has gotten to the point where most good players will no longer engage with reddit because of the extreme hostility and incompetence. Top tier players aren't always going to be right about everything, but the things for which they often get downvotes are absurd.

rat9988 4y ago
Just name the subreddit, otherwise we can't do much with your comment.
- TheAceOfHearts 4y ago
  Well, in this case I'm referring to the Heroes of the Storm subreddit, but I'm sure it's applicable to other games as well.

CSMastermind 4y ago

This year one of my resolutions was to finally give up Reddit because I kept recognizing the site frustrating, annoying, or disappointing me. Whether intentional or not that seems to be the type of content generated there.

testmasterflex 4y ago
Download Apollo and unsubscribe from all mainstream subreddits + remove all and popular, is the key.
- z3c0 4y ago
  I did this myself, but it only kicked the can on my eventual leaving. Sure, niche subreddits are generally better in their content and discussions, but I still noticed that the same behaviors end up being rewarded. It's the format that's the problem, not the content, and that's the one thing shared by all subreddits.
  - karmakaze 4y ago
    Most subreddits I visit are low volume and haven't noticed much difference in behaviour other than acceptability of short funny replies. What do you mean about the format, isn't it the same as HN (OP link/text and comments)? I do recall a comment/thread saying how HN comments/behaviour was starting to resemble Reddit, so there may be something to that (though I'd chalk it up to becoming more popular/mainstream).
    - z3c0 4y ago
      HN only works because of supplemental rules and heavy moderation, which both look very different on Reddit. Even if a subreddit reaches a good set of rules, enforcement is usually poor, due both to mods being volunteers and a generally negative view towards moderation (can you imagine "Mods are gay" flying on HN?) Any moments of "lightning-in-a-bottle" can certainly result in memorable periods where a subreddit truly adds value to one's life, and that can make the whole website hard to give up. However, after a decade of redditing, I never saw one subreddit maintain that momentum once the larger audience poured in, which always came as a result of the perfect balance. Members of /r/subredditA will hear that /r/subredditB is similar but with better discourse, and then the wave of rufugees from /r/subredditA will pour in, ruining /r/subredditB (eg /r/Gaming and /r/Games.) On HN, if you don't like the rules, you go find a different website.

edgyquant 4y ago

I stopped using Reddit over a year ago and found a couple of traditional forums to replace it with. Sure I don’t have enough discussion to soak up hours of my day but in turn I’ve just started reading more books. My mental health has greatly improved.

BrandoElFollito 4y ago
I was there with, what, 1M+ karma and one night, when I realized I was arguing with an immature teenager I realized how much this impacts me. I deleted the account immediately and never regretted it once. I recreated a new ne to engage in purely technical discussions.

chrismarlow9 4y ago

This wasn't always the case. I've used Reddit since the Digg days and in the earlier days it was long form comments with sources and the vote system was actually used as a "this is true" signal instead of an "I don't agree with this". The thing that killed it in my opinion was the layout change to embed media directly in Facebook style. Sure there's always old.reddit.com , but the problem is that because of the default interface change it drives a certain type of ecosystem for submissions and discussions that's not as enjoyable. Tl,Dr when it was primarily a text based website the discussions were better. The gifs, video, meme layout is like junk food.

mancerayder 4y ago
I was thinking that HN shows only the writer what the 'value' of the post is (number of upvotes). In Reddit, most subs seem to show that number to the whole world. So if this comment had 100 upvotes, and another one 20, you're the winner, everyone can see it. I speculate it at the minimum encourages subconscious behavior of trying to game votes upwards, and also biases people that it's a good comment. Because your brain will process "100" before reading a paragraph of words.
- disgruntledphd2 4y ago
  HN used to have points! It was a long time ago though, and hiding them was probably the right decision.

Tycho 4y ago

I use the word Reddit as a pejorative. “I stopped watching after the second season. The writing had become so reddit.” “The steak itself was good but this sauce is a bit reddit.” “Rose Street is a good night out but Raeburn Place is completely reddit.”

mynegation 4y ago
I read each of these three examples several times and I still have no idea what you meant, outside of general displeasure. Maybe this is the point. So in a strange twist of meta your examples are way too reddit for me.
mancerayder 4y ago
I just invented one: "Redditsplain" v. "To make confident, even angry assertions about facts without a strong backing, but in a literary and well-reasoned style. To make bold statements about a subject where one is still a dilettante."
- arp242 4y ago
  This is hardly unique to Reddit, and happens on HN as well.

PragmaticPulp 4y ago

> There are some thoughtful subs (star something codex) I had to unsubscribe from that sub. In the past you could find some potentially interesting conversations with knowledgeable responses if you sifted through the noise. Lately, the general vibe has become uncomfortably welcoming of incel-adjacent topics or exploring weird alternative medicine ideas. The general vibe is that "normie" stuff is bad, contrarian takes are default good, and "rationalists" are the only ones who see the world for how it really is. The contrarian superiority is becoming vaguely reminiscent of conspiracy theorist circles. Everything is written in pseudo-intellectual style that makes it feel extra truthy, despite being recycled content from other domains. I finally unsubscribed after a series of posts where posters wrote at length about their frustrations with dating, blaming their failures on women and women's behaviors as if women were a foreign species. The straw that broke the camel's back was when someone complained about taking women out on dates and not receiving sex in return for their effort, which I assumed would have been readily downvoted and dismissed. Instead, it was upvoted (100+ votes) and most of the upvoted comments agreed with the OP's take. When weird incel ideology becomes front and center accepted in a community, I'm out.

mancerayder 4y ago
>Everything is written in pseudo-intellectual style that makes it feel extra truthy, despite being recycled content from other domains. I think I know what you mean about that sub and some slightly oddball 'aggrieved men' sort of pile-on conversations. To your point here - that's one of the points I was making above, that I'm coming to realize (and perhaps there's a bit of looking in the mirror here) that good writing can cover up shoddy thinking. I've made a concerted effort to sometimes pause when I'm replying to something, and look things up to make sure what what I just said is true is actually true. Probably because I ran into smart people who questioned things here on HN. One time I was replying to some sort of big article/thread in a real estate sub which touched upon housing affordability, the number of unregulated versus unregulated units in my city. I replied with a pretty neutral tone and linked the city's yearly datasheet in a PDF format which backed up what I said in terms of the breakdown of housing types in the city. There was a pie graph in the PDF document. Well, I got downvoted to grey/invisible and there were a ton of replies in the style of "How arrogant that you think you're going to make us read THAT." I thought it was incredible how the people reacted.

buildbot 4y ago

It’s not really different here… Just recently, with the ballon stuff, sooooo many commenters were super confident how hard it would be to get up there and shoot down a ballon, how a missile would not work, etc. Like, unless you are all in the air force, you have no clue. I did not, and that’s okay, and I just didn’t say anything.

yeahbu777 4y ago

This is such a routine, generalized rant it almost becomes the problem it describes. Short, spiteful condescension that circles back to the authors preferences (HN). No explicit language, I guess, but I learned nothing except some internet rando has a BS opinion. If you did any research you’d see the same on HN. Public forums are noise generators which, once reasoned around, makes it more fun. I email academics doing work I find interesting for the best signal; most reply.

MikeTheRocker 4y ago

This perfectly captures my frustration with Reddit. I can't stand it these days. It's been eye opening to read about technical subjects on Reddit that I personally know a lot about only to see heaps of confidently spewed misinformation in the comments. Makes me question the validity of everything I read where I'm not very knowledgeable. I'm very grateful HN is a lot more thoughtful and open to questioning.

ilyt 4y ago
What's worse the well-written bullshit gets upvoted while the actual true answer gets downvoted because "It doesn't sound right" to the average visitor. Not that it is any different for any other social network tho.
tsol 4y ago
I'll fact check comments I read at random sometimes when I question their validity. A few years ago, I feel as though reddit was an amazing places for all sorts of niche information from diverse places. There was some misinfo definitely, but for the most part it seemed as though information was posted for the sake of sharing information. Now I find it's not nearly as trustworthy, and people almost always have an agenda

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JakeAl 4y ago

This has been a challenge in online communities for quite sometime. Some approaches I wanted to mention are what Metafilter does, which is require people pay to sign up and comment, and when they sign up they have to wait 30 days to comment. This cuts down a lot of noise and reactionary Twitter type trolling. Another I think is worth mentioning is r/NeutralPolitics on reddit. They have a pretty strict moderation policy that makes for some string signal to noise but due to it's heavy handedness I feel like it does not get enough different perspectives because the least thought out or explored do not get enough attention.

akomtu 4y ago

Reddit caters to the young audience, it's mostly them who go on emotional crusades as they have little experience to back up their words. In real life, you wouldn't engage in a serious argument about real estate market with 10 year olds, but on Reddit you can and do.