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Case in point: Hacker News comments vs. Reddit comments vs. Digg comments. Sure, there's a population bias. But Reddit used to have mostly intelligent comments
by tvchurch 18y ago
Case in point: Hacker News comments vs. Reddit comments vs. Digg comments.
Sure, there's a population bias. But Reddit used to have mostly intelligent comments. Not anymore.
- ars 18y agoAnd even stronger: digg is now better than reddit. Digg is somewhat moderated, reddit isn't at all.
- unalone 18y agoSubreddits have moderators. Some of them have really excellent communities. Digg is still an absolute wreck. Reddit is actually pretty good once you're away from /reddit.com and /politics and /economics.
- atlbeer 18y ago4chan
- unalone 18y ago4chan is brighter than it lets on. But recently it's become a parody of itself. What once began hilarious and meme-laden has become a bunch of people repeating memes, which aren't funny unless they're clever.
- iigs 18y agoI honestly think that 4chan has some of the highest comment standards of any board I can think of, particularly for initial posts (comments can be fairly vacuous). A lot of people go to /b for the trolling, and a lot of trolls go completely ignored or get called out almost immediately. Sure the board isn't first-order intelligent, but intelligence (along with timing and a certain type of wit) certainly helps when trying to get people riled up.