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"It's better than bigger social sharing sites like Reddit" I think this sentence is wholly flawed. Reddit is divided into subreddits, each subreddit has their
by mahranch 12y ago
"It's better than bigger social sharing sites like Reddit"
I think this sentence is wholly flawed. Reddit is divided into subreddits, each subreddit has their own unique community and moderators. /r/askscience for example, is one of the best science help communities on the entire internet.
Their level of discourse far surpasses hackernews by any objective metric.
There are plenty of other subreddits with similar quality, /r/askhistorians comes to mind.
HN is the equivalent of a single subreddit and should be compared as such.
- saym 12y agoI agree, what's your opinion of this forum in that light? How would you rate the moderators of content here? To move a level up the ladder, What do you (or any other commenter who feels like responding) look to get out of this community?
- restless 12y agoFinding good links, hearing news and occasional commenting if i think I can add something valuable to a thread.
- argonaut 12y agoThat isn't a good comparison because of the limiting nature (specific format) of those subreddits. For example, the Ask HN and Show HN threads tend to be much higher quality than HN in general.
- zimbatm 12y agoYour post is a good example of what the parent was talking about. Everyone has their opinion. Instead of contributing new ideas and venues of explorations your post is "debugging" the parent post on a specific thing while missing the meat of the conversation. It doesn't matter if his analogy is flawed because the main point was about HN being predominantly critical.