What I really don't get is how HN works. Good info (when it appears) crowds out bad, but the opposite happens on reddit, slashdot, lobsters.
It's weird how highly upvoted comments on r/prog are nearly always super wrong. I don't mind the comments, but why do people upvote them?pic.twitter.com/qxngnIKSQG
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I think HN benefits from the right amount of meta; a lot of its users feel a stake in its quality. (It is also very broken!)
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11 points is not 'highly upvoted'. Things get sorted out when there is a reply that corrects it
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they usually don't. 90% of the time the correction gets 1/10th or 1/100th of the votes of the bad info
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I think visibility of net votes, plus sorting by it, both encourage ignorant me-too voting. Dunno what else is wrong.
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That one is a doozy.
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also worth mentioning that for all it does right, HN community can be infuriatingly bad/frustrating
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MOST instructions take a single cycle TO EXECUTE; I wonder if most ppl who upvoted filled in the blanks.
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you could as well talk about the elections :-(
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and since they're super plausible and require specific domain expertise to debunk, seems likely to continue. :(
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