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hodgesrm · 2023-07-15 16:40:47

Well, HN is kind of famous for veering off topic. It has its pluses and minuses.

0xdeadbeefbabe | karma 1034 | avg karma 0.53 · | 2016-08-05 20:52:48+00:00

Why do you mention HN at all? Doesn't seem relevant. It's just a place where people come to disagree.

93po | karma 2913 | avg karma 1.22 · | 2024-02-26 13:37:12

HN as a general crowd is pretty poorly informed. It does attract the odd subject matter expert on some topics but I feel like half the comments I read on any subject are really off the mark, which I am sure mine are too

hkarthik | karma 2736 | avg karma 3.29 · | 2013-04-10 16:04:47+00:00

Care to share any examples of the kinds of things that the HN crowd tends to gloss over?

SeanDav | karma 5562 | avg karma 4.57 · | 2019-05-10 15:56:14+00:00

HN is a bit of an echo chamber. A very interesting and worthwhile echo chamber, but an echo chamber nevertheless.

This is not a criticism, but probably an unavoidable by-product of how it works and the audience it attracts.

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mreiland | karma 430 | avg karma 0.66 · | 2015-11-28 14:46:22

My guess it because HN can feel a bit stifling to those that enjoy actual discourse.

Zrdr | karma 21 | avg karma 1.91 · | 2019-05-10 10:56:38

Effectively, HN has a strong bias over interesting things.

sanxiyn | karma 14687 | avg karma 3.61 · | 2019-03-16 06:42:44+00:00

I agree. Most of discussion is irrelevant to most HN people.

devilduck | karma 36 | avg karma 0.25 · | 2021-10-14 11:47:56

Unsurprising, I'm pretty critical of HN and they don't like that very much

karmawitch | karma 6 | avg karma 2.0 · | 2016-01-20 23:33:02+00:00

is it just me or is it quite rare to see such a low level of discussion on HN?

bdcravens | karma 20814 | avg karma 2.3 · | 2020-01-22 16:00:29

That would probably rule out about 90% of the discussion on HN.

abootstrapper | karma 1389 | avg karma 3.92 · | 2020-07-20 03:11:48

I love HN too, but I'm dubious it "points to the real diversity of what is happening." It mostly just has politics turned down to 2-3 out of 10.

dmazin | karma 3104 | avg karma 6.93 · | 2015-03-04 18:04:42+00:00

Whoa, a contrarian point of view on HN?

lclarkmichalek | karma 2692 | avg karma 4.01 · | 2017-01-14 18:14:23

HN isn't particularly diverse in its negativity.

drtillberg | karma 1252 | avg karma 4.22 · | 2019-11-29 21:23:43+00:00

I don't understand the waves of down votes in this thread. Not very HN-like.

zbentley | karma 4398 | avg karma 2.85 · | 2019-05-20 22:45:28+00:00

Could you put that in terms that are less condescending and ad-hominem? My impression of HN is that it's not the place for that kind of tone.

TillE | karma 15387 | avg karma 3.69 · | 2022-12-11 11:11:16

HN is big into contrarianism across a wide variety of topics.

na85 | karma 6342 | avg karma 1.69 · | 2013-11-18 08:02:25+00:00

I think that if you examine the meta on HN dispassionately you'll see it's actually a very good reason.

It often gets couched in different language, but a great deal of HNers have a large dislike of HN because of either groupthink or mainstream-aversion.

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Armisael16 | karma 1015 | avg karma 2.1 · | 2021-02-09 15:34:30+00:00

HN is significantly better in its particular area of focus and somewhat worse in other areas. This is basically what you'd expect from a community with a narrower focus - HN hasn't done anything wrong on that front.

CoastalCoder | karma 6391 | avg karma 2.71 · | 2021-04-29 19:07:25+00:00

Are you sure there's really such a trend in HN discussions? I've never noticed it.