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It's still pretty bad here, as you can see with many discussions the CNN-type opinion tends to be prevalent. What is nice is that discussions here often involve intelligent, analytical discussion around such talking points; a degree less hivemind regurgitation here perhaps.

I'm sure there is a heck of a lot less reputation management and astroturfing here. That is probably down to the size of this forum though.

This is certain. It's impossible to have any kind of discussion on Reddit, outside of a few places like /r/conservative and /r/tuesday. It's one big echo chamber. Hacker News definitely is better than that.

It's not as bad here, but just the fact people are downvoting you for stating this suggests it's still common here.