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Reddit scares the hell out of us, because Reddit used to be as good as Hacker News, and slowly... oh so slowly are lower quality submissions coming. And then sl
by lionhearted 18y ago
Reddit scares the hell out of us, because Reddit used to be as good as Hacker News, and slowly... oh so slowly are lower quality submissions coming. And then slowly that'll prompt lesser caliber people to enjoy participating. Who'll submit more lesser caliber stories, and then HN is a wasteland full of "puns" and just outright goofyness.
The average American isn't becoming a terrorist, or in any danger of terrorism. Hacker News will sink to the level of Reddit unless it's actively fought by the culture and leadership here.
- ph0rque 18y agoI understand your concern, but there's a key difference between reddit and HN: one is general news the other--hacker news. So you should really be comparing reddit to CNN or other mainstream news organizations. In that sense, I think reddit is still a better source, even if it is very biased. My initial point was: we shouldn't call a particular story redditlike as a catch-all Bad Thing(tm).
- Herring 18y agoHave you looked at the front page? I'm finding there's precious little I can use. The V8 is nice & certainly the python articles are decent, but there's really nothing else. I can get better from the programming/linux/python subreddit.