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This is an HN comment thread, hence we expect a higher quality of comments than elsewhere on the Internet. Thanks for the links.
by fsflover 3y ago
This is an HN comment thread, hence we expect a higher quality of comments than elsewhere on the Internet. Thanks for the links.
- jf22 3y agoI think there is more of an expectation here to Google simple things for yourself rather than condescendingly ask for a source that is a few keystrokes away.
- fsflover 3y agoEveryone can search things on the Internet. However when I state something on HN, I usually try to add some good links, which are not top Google results. Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38725734 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38725734.
- tdb7893 3y agoThe opinion that HN has particularly high quality comments is always surprising to me. Outside of the times where the person commenting is the actual creator of whatever the post is about I've found comments here to be a dumpster fire to the point where I often have fun looking at them specifically because they are often so wild and I love a good mess. I assume people here will disagree but it's that exact stark difference in perspective that's so interesting to me
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- fsflover 3y agoI definitely noticed that the quality of the comments here is often better than simply stating some opinion. The latter is typical for social media echo chambers but not here.
- PawgerZ 3y agoI agree with everything you said, yet I still believe HN comments are regularly the most high quality on the internet. Do you know anywhere that has better comments than HN?
- naremu 3y agoWell quite frankly, saying "the claim that these are lies are just as disingenuous as the claims themselves" is a pretty low quality, classic stick-in-the-spokes "debate" tactic that essentially hand waves the ball back in the other person's court with minimal effort or contribution or real debate and puts maximum onus on someone else in public in the "flow" of discourse. This is "great" for televised debates but this is kind of passive aggressive for the tone people prefer here. We're talking to people here. More directly than a formal debate. Someone participating earnestly knows they are capable of either politely expressing interest and asking for sources, or as another mentioned: typing and clicking all by themselves.
- fsflover 3y ago> saying "the claim that these are lies are just as disingenuous as the claims themselves" I didn't say that, but I do think that providing links is helpful.
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y agoquote: simply saying they're lies is just as disingenuous as the people making the statements in the first place paraphrase: the claim that these are lies are just as disingenuous as the claims themselves claim: I didn't say that I confess that I can't quite see the difference.
- fsflover 3y agoI'm not @jairuhme.
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y agoAh, entirely fair point! :) Sorry about that.