yeah, I swore off HN (logged out and forgot my password) long before I could get any sort of credibility there
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Replying to @johnregehr @trav_downs
It can be pretty bad. But I've had some useful conversations there. Downvote and upvote together can help shape a conversation, and I will go on social issue threads and rapid-downvote every knee-jerk dudebro type response and rapid-upvote all skeptical reponses.
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Replying to @geofflangdale @trav_downs
yeah there's a base of serious expertise there, it just doesn't come out that often
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it's why I still go there sometimes
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What's your hit rate? I estimate ~1/year on my end :x
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Replying to @pkhuong @johnregehr and
One issue (IMO) is there are people who are legitimate experts on some topics who seem compelled to write up reasonable sounding but completely bogus comments on other topics. Unless you're a subject-matter expert, I think it would be hard to determine which comments are bogus.
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The obviously completely wrong comments don't bother me (everyone can tell those are wrong), but a pet peeve of mine are the people who are credible who feel like they have to comment on everything. There are three or four people like this. Why!? It's a waste of everyone's time.
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When they comment on topics I know about, the comments are very wrong (but not obviously so to a lay person). I'm guessing they're no different on topics I don't know about outside of their expertise. This is one of the two main reasons I don't read a lot of HN comments anymore.
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Definitely. The same suspects turn up on regular expression threads and talk about regular expression derivatives *every* *single* *time*. They don't have experience building this stuff, but they've read a couple papers or blog posts and just want to show that off.
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Replying to @geofflangdale @pkhuong and
I'd love a forum where experts deleted bogus comments, like r/askhistorians but for tech. One funny side effect of that moderation policy is, if you visit a popular discussion a week or two afterwards, 80% to 100% of comments will be deleted.
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I expect that r/askhistorians has a higher SNR than HN due to its moderation policy. And I think HN is actually way better than the popular alternatives -- I think you'd see 2 9s deletion on HN, 3 9s or more on r/programming and slashdot.
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