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
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.
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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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I know a lot about this because it is what we did at Stack Overflow. It requires a religious adherence to data / facts / cites
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signal to noise in terms of users. Reddit heftily banked towards the quick 'meme' jokes, intellect is in smaller subreddits.
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HN has it's own problems. Such poopooing on older but stable & fast solutions.
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one huge diff is that HN is ONLY HN. No other boards so to speak. Everyone there is only there to talk shop.
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I sometimes wonder if it's because of HN's relatively small community size and niche appeal; e.g. compare small subs vs. large subs
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Doesn't explain why slashdot and lobsters relatively suck though. Bad modding scaring away good users and encouraging bad users?
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On HN score is invisible for low karma users. Also, cannot downvote until karma is significantly high. Discourages piling on.
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Also heavier moderation on HN discourages trollish behavior, but it's upvoted on Reddit.
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no comment collapsing, good comments get good replies, it's easy to fake a comment but hard to fake a convo?
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