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Is HN just reddit now? The comments on this are beyond stupid and add nothing of value or thought.

by bogota 5mo ago

Cider9986 5mo ago
No, it's not. There are a lot more thoughtful comments and some questioning the headline for its clickbait. I agree there are a lot more low quality comments, though. It depends on the article.
- alex1138 5mo ago
  There has been a bit of a trend. I do appreciate dissenting comments on HN even when I've gotten a bit defensive over them
poolnoodle 5mo ago
Agreed. The quality of comments has really declined.
- loeg 5mo ago
  Did you have a different account before a year ago? HN discourages the same individual rotating accounts.
senordevnyc 5mo ago
It's gotten almost unbearable in the last couple years. The amount of hate, cynicism, bitterness, etc. towards almost everything (currently AI, capitalism, anyone successful, etc) is just ridiculous. It's sad, I've been a heavy user for almost twenty years now, and I find it borderline intolerable most days.
loeg 5mo ago
Increasingly so :(.
pembrook 5mo ago
I've been saying this for the past year or so. Something happened during the pandemic where too many normies got hired into tech and then started larping around here. The quality of comments here is now just emotional mainstream nonsense, compared to the annoyingly autistic (but often intelligent) analysis that used to be commonplace.
- Karrot_Kream 5mo ago
  It was probably the Reddit exodus. A lot of people from Reddit realized that HN has the same topics as Reddit and has the same upvote/downvote interface around the same time Reddit was having its API changes. The folks who did it were the kind who felt strongly enough about Reddit's leadership that they brought their strong opinions here. Nothing you can do about open forums really. They all regress to the mean user who has enough time to spend hitting the up and downvote arrows on the website all day.
userbinator 5mo ago
Unfortunately anything vaguely political tends to devolve quickly.

Is HN just reddit now? The comments on this are beyond stupid and add nothing of value or thought.

by bogota 5mo ago

Is HN just reddit now? The comments on this are beyond stupid and add nothing of value or thought.

No, it's not. There are a lot more thoughtful comments and some questioning the headline for its clickbait. I agree there are a lot more low quality comments, though. It depends on the article.

alex1138 5mo ago
There has been a bit of a trend. I do appreciate dissenting comments on HN even when I've gotten a bit defensive over them

poolnoodle 5mo ago

Agreed. The quality of comments has really declined.

loeg 5mo ago
Did you have a different account before a year ago? HN discourages the same individual rotating accounts.

senordevnyc 5mo ago

It's gotten almost unbearable in the last couple years. The amount of hate, cynicism, bitterness, etc. towards almost everything (currently AI, capitalism, anyone successful, etc) is just ridiculous. It's sad, I've been a heavy user for almost twenty years now, and I find it borderline intolerable most days.

loeg 5mo ago

Increasingly so :(.

pembrook 5mo ago

I've been saying this for the past year or so. Something happened during the pandemic where too many normies got hired into tech and then started larping around here. The quality of comments here is now just emotional mainstream nonsense, compared to the annoyingly autistic (but often intelligent) analysis that used to be commonplace.

Karrot_Kream 5mo ago
It was probably the Reddit exodus. A lot of people from Reddit realized that HN has the same topics as Reddit and has the same upvote/downvote interface around the same time Reddit was having its API changes. The folks who did it were the kind who felt strongly enough about Reddit's leadership that they brought their strong opinions here. Nothing you can do about open forums really. They all regress to the mean user who has enough time to spend hitting the up and downvote arrows on the website all day.

userbinator 5mo ago

Unfortunately anything vaguely political tends to devolve quickly.