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And yet, you read and comment on Hacker News, a social media site akin to reddit. Do you have the same conclusion about this space?
by beebmam 3y ago
And yet, you read and comment on Hacker News, a social media site akin to reddit. Do you have the same conclusion about this space?
- mlekoszek 3y agoThe people here are nice
- yccs27 3y ago... for now ;)
- zowie_vd 3y agoThe feature list of Hacker News is similar to Reddit, but the content and the nature of quality control are entirely different, and his issues were about the content he saw on those websites. In light of that I don't agree that his comment is hypocritical.
- Pannoniae 3y agoThis site doesn't even have half the problems as most social media. Ragebait is usually handled well, the incentives to troll/virtue signal are low (karma is not visible) and the level of discussion is usually high. And there is no customised feed, everyone sees the same thing.
- adql 3y ago...people look at other people's karma on reddit ?
- local_crmdgeon 3y agoThe karma of individual comments absolutely changes the way people interact with them
- ljm 3y agoNot to mention it's a race to the bottom in terms of posting the most low-effort, low-quality content because they tend to get the most upvoted. It doesn't do anything to encourage nuance or thoughtful interaction.
- local_crmdgeon 3y agoCorrect, and a lot of it is posting either very short comments, which are parsed easily, or very long comments that seem like they are correct by length alone (Bardfinn and PoppinKream). Neither has much to do with being "good" comments
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- MikusR 3y agoYou must be looking at some niche topics then.
- itsoktocry 3y ago>Ragebait is usually handled well Because there's a monoculture here, and you are part of it (so am I, for the most part). Pay attention to topics even moderately political and see what happens to comments that fall outside the accepted norm.
- verisimi 3y agoIndeed - it is a monoculture that pays lip service to science, but actually is all about consensus.
- pjmorris 3y agoIf I've understood what's said about Thomas Kuhn's 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions', even science is all about consensus. I'm fond of Max Planck's “a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”, or its pithy summary "science advances one funeral at a time."
- verisimi 3y agoYou think science is what the consensus says it is, even if you cannot personally verify it? If that's it, what exactly is the difference between science and religion?
- anonymous_sorry 3y agoScience is primarily a methodology, and secondarily a body of provisional knowledge discovered and tested via that methodology. As non practitioners, if we trust in the methodology, then to some extent we have to take a shortcut and make decisions based on the consensus judgement of expert practitioners. And, unlike some religious people, accept we can never act in absolute certainty.
- verisimi 3y ago
- goodbyesf 3y ago> This site doesn't even have half the problems as most social media. All social media has the same problems. This site is no different. It is just a smaller social media - essentially a single subreddit with one mod who you agree with. > And there is no customised feed, everyone sees the same thing. The entire site is a customized feed which everyone sees after it has been customized.
- imchillyb 3y agoHN has more in common with a bbs from the 1980s than it does a social media site of today.