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The real problem is that places like HN and Reddit allow downvotes / reports to drown people out. Someone on Twitter will post on their page. They control it. I
by hparadiz 1mo ago
The real problem is that places like HN and Reddit allow downvotes / reports to drown people out. Someone on Twitter will post on their page. They control it. It can be slop. It can be low quality. It can be their random thoughts but all that is irrelevant while you slowly build up your audience and the stuff you wanna work on. This generally takes time and is something that grows organically. Meanwhile on HN I will regularly see posts "flagged" where the account didn't actually say anything bad or against the rules. It just goes against the group think and it doesn't even take that much. It can be 1 or 2 people flagging your post and then suddenly it's hidden. This simply does not happen on Twitter.
So eventually people stop posting. I stopped posting on Reddit entirely for example even though I had dozens of very highly upvoted technical posts mainly because I would regularly see highly inaccurate information get upvoted while the real accurate information is downvoted.
HN has the same problem with Elon Musk overall and SpaceX / Twitter.
On Twitter there is a highly active community of space enthusiasts. Absolutely none of them would post slop like "Elon is not an engineer" but on HN that is what passes for discourse.
I mean at least they tell on themselves but I would prefer a technical forum have actually smart people in it. Not just larpers.
I just can't take this discourse seriously.
- inigyou 1mo agoSubstack is about posting on your page. Twitter is about posting on other people's pages in the reply section.
- esseph 1mo ago> On Twitter there is a highly active community of space enthusiasts. Absolutely none of them would post slop like "Elon is not an engineer" You live in an algo bubble! TONS of intelligent people with backgrounds in space, defense and technology say it all the time on Twitter.
- hparadiz 1mo agoAnd all of them are wrong.
- Parodper 1mo agoHe isn't. He has a bachelor in economics and physics.
- hparadiz 1mo agoYou're an engineer as soon as you make an engineering decision. End of.
- defrost 1mo agoTrain drivers blowing their own horns are only Engineers in the weakest possible sense.
- hparadiz 1mo agoI'm at the point where I think you people are just dumb. The amount of people I've worked with my in career who did things totally outside of their major in college or simply dropped out entirely. I'm literally sitting here thinking about how intellectually destitute the so called left has become and it makes me sad.
- esseph 1mo ago> the so called left HUH? When did that ever come up?
- Parodper 1mo agoDoing engineering ≠ being an engineer. Am I a doctor because I took my temperature and found I had a fever? Am I a lawyer if I represent myself in court? At least where I'm from, you need to be licensed to practice engineering.