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> Hacker news and r/programming is only good to get general ideas and keep up-to-date. The comments are almost worthless. I've been rate limited by the HN mods

by cube00 6mo ago

> Hacker news and r/programming is only good to get general ideas and keep up-to-date. The comments are almost worthless. I've been rate limited by the HN mods and knowing I can only reply a few times a day now I don't bother reading the comments anymore because I can't participate. It also feels icky to continue when you're no longer welcome somewhere, but they're trying to be nice by slowing you down rather then an outright ban. I was worried that means I'll miss out but maybe that "pull" I feel to check the comments might not be such a bad habit to break as I might not have been getting the value I thought from it (at least I hope so)

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Cerium 6mo ago
Some perspective: I feel that I participate here, yet most days I don't write even a single comment. When I comment I rarely write more than two comments a day.
benhurmarcel 6mo ago
I don't know, I never got an invitation to Lobsters and yet I still go through it regularly. You find some interesting links and comments even if you can't participate.
- aquariusDue 6mo ago
  Same, sometimes the same thing gets posted on both places and it's interesting to compare the discussions. Other times some really cool niche things gets posted there but not here or doesn't gain enough traction to be visible (to me) here and I end up reading about it on there. What's also nice is that because the community is smaller there you end up seeing familiar faces and due to that on some threads I actually hope they post their take/opinion. That's my parasocial third place these days /s
- sp4cec0wb0y 6mo ago
  I can shoot you an invite. Email me.
  - benhurmarcel 6mo ago
    Done, thanks
MisterTea 6mo ago
This happened to me so I emailed hn and got a response that stated that at one point I had a cluster of down-votes for bad behavior and since that period had no issues so they lifted the ban. Simple.

by cube00 6mo ago

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Cerium 6mo ago

Some perspective: I feel that I participate here, yet most days I don't write even a single comment. When I comment I rarely write more than two comments a day.

benhurmarcel 6mo ago

I don't know, I never got an invitation to Lobsters and yet I still go through it regularly. You find some interesting links and comments even if you can't participate.

aquariusDue 6mo ago
Same, sometimes the same thing gets posted on both places and it's interesting to compare the discussions. Other times some really cool niche things gets posted there but not here or doesn't gain enough traction to be visible (to me) here and I end up reading about it on there. What's also nice is that because the community is smaller there you end up seeing familiar faces and due to that on some threads I actually hope they post their take/opinion. That's my parasocial third place these days /s
sp4cec0wb0y 6mo ago
I can shoot you an invite. Email me.
- benhurmarcel 6mo ago
  Done, thanks

MisterTea 6mo ago

This happened to me so I emailed hn and got a response that stated that at one point I had a cluster of down-votes for bad behavior and since that period had no issues so they lifted the ban. Simple.