I've noticed the same thing. I wrote this post[1] a month ago. I put a lot of time into it and posted it on /r/haskell. I got some very insightful comments and

I've noticed the same thing. I wrote this post[1] a month ago. I put a lot of time into it and posted it on /r/haskell. I got some very insightful comments and good discussion. Two days ago it got posted to HN and the comments were very different. Lots of people saying "I don't understand this, this post sucks" but very few responded to me when I asked where they were stumbling so I could fix it[2]. The upshot to all this is, I got way more exposure through HN than through /r/haskell, and a lot of people loved the post. I've gotten some cool emails out of this. So overall, I'd say trolls sure suck but the nice emails make it all worthwhile. [1] http://adit.io/posts/2013-04-17-functors,_applicatives,_and_monads_in_pictures.html http://adit.io/posts/2013-04-17-functors,_applicatives,_and_... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5736004 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5736004