HN vs Reddit Debate
Discussions focus on complaints that Hacker News is becoming like Reddit, defenses of HN's superior quality and moderation, and references to guidelines discouraging such comparisons to maintain high signal-to-noise ratios.
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Please clarify: Is your complaint that HN is too much like Reddit, or not enough?
Imagine thinking HN is any better than Reddit in 2020
Many people here don't like to see HN turning into reddit
Commentary on HN is starting to resemble Reddit. It’s not a good thing.
Last comment in thread compares HN to Reddit.
Please check out the HN guidelines. They discourage posting comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit.
I come to HN for the quality of the discussions, please don't comment like this.
It is a virtue to keep the signal-to-noise ratio of top-level submissions high. It is a virtue to keep the signal-to-noise ratio of comments in threads discussing interesting content high. Behaviour here is undefined. There is another website that handles it better. We all read it anyways. Keep HN beautiful.
Please note that the HN community takes a rather strict approach when moderating comments that contribute noise to the conversation. "Nice article!" comments are routinely downvoted. As is sarcasm, witticisms, memes, references and other styles of comments that occur frequently but do not contribute to the discussion. It's a knowingly doomed attempt to hold back the flood of noise that covers Reddit. Welcome to Hacker News!
question: doesn't submitting posts like this, which will likely garner a bunch of points, contradict the theme that it is pushing forth? seeing a bunch of top threads that just talk about the state of HN makes HN much less HN-like.