Hard disagreed with HN being just reddit for IT guys as well. On most reddit subs, you get banned/flagged/downvoted for simply disagreeing with the hivemind of

Hard disagreed with HN being just reddit for IT guys as well. On most reddit subs, you get banned/flagged/downvoted for simply disagreeing with the hivemind of a given subreddit, your tone doesn't matter. On HN, I found the exact inverse, you can bring up dissenting points with no issues, at worst you are going to get downvoted (but even that doesn't happen as much as one would expect), as long as you stay polite and reasonable. But if you are being inflammatory or act like an asshole, even if your opinion aligns perfectly with the hivemind of a given comment section, you are getting downvoted/flagged (often by the same people who would agree with your point otherwise). That alone makes the quality of discussion and the entire interaction with HN community massively different from reddit, and for the better.