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If intellectuals were the only people chatting on Wikipedia, I would like Wikipedia even better than I like Hacker News.
by tokenadult 13y ago
If intellectuals were the only people chatting on Wikipedia, I would like Wikipedia even better than I like Hacker News.
- benched 13y agoI like Wikipedia 100x better than Hacker News. 50% of the chatter here is robots repeating: logical fallacy, citation needed, not science, anecdote detected!, over and over. Like broken clocks, they may be right sometimes; but that is far from my idea of intellectual. 30% is short comments that don't add much, like this one. (Notably, that's up from 1% about 4 years ago.) I'm only here for the last 20% or so.
- kops 13y agoSame here. HN still requires some energy on my part to parse the information as there is a significant amount of noise on account of self promotion/PR. On wikipedia my hit rate is almost 100%. I usually get what I want...
- kops 13y agoSurrounding yourself selectively with intellectuals, is a luxury only super rich can afford(or can they?). I can live with a little bit of bias, PR or bullshit here and there. Of course, I assume, probably incorrectly, that I can tell the difference ;-)