In my experience, Reddit somewhat encourages snark and sarcasm, but you better be bleeding edge and perfect in your wit, lest you be criticized into reddit hell

In my experience, Reddit somewhat encourages snark and sarcasm, but you better be bleeding edge and perfect in your wit, lest you be criticized into reddit hell. Hacker news does a pretty good job of squashing most snark, sarcasm and humor which gives it a clarity of focus toward helpful discussion. I think that this generally makes HN a much more pleasant, if slightly sterile place to hang out. In my opinion, that is a worthy trade off. I think the main critique I have of HN is that sometimes comments that are critical, but not necessarily mean get downvoted. Its a tough problem to solve though, so I can give it a pass. Maybe I should create a biometric mood ring that attaches your mood context with a post...