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> I do not understand the idolization of HN as some bastion of spirited debate and nuance. HN is the closest thing there is to a news aggregator with civil, op
by pipeline_peak 3y ago
> I do not understand the idolization of HN as some bastion of spirited debate and nuance.
HN is the closest thing there is to a news aggregator with civil, open discussions. If there’s one closer, I’d love to know.
- krapp 3y agoMany well moderated technical forums like /r/AskHistorians are not only civil and open, but have a higher degree of technical and intellectual merit related to the subject at hand, by virtue of being more focused. On HN you can expect at least median technical competence when the subject is web development, but beyond that (and definitely with non-tech related subjects) people tend to be "aggressively ignorant" to the point that you can tell who the few actually knowledgeable people are by how angry they are at everyone else.
- pipeline_peak 3y ago> news aggregator I'm talking about overall, by average, not subreddit
- krapp 3y agoReddit also has more high quality comments on average than Hacker News, simply due to its greater size and volume.
- pipeline_peak 3y agoI’ve been there pretty frequently for a long time, I’d have to disagree.