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Comment by mardifoufs | Hacker News Reader

>But Reddit has far, far more interesting and nuanced discussions that includes many people at the top of their respective fields

Look, I don't even disagree with your overall comment on HN, but this is a complete joke. I can't tell if you are actually serious. Go to the front page of reddit now and point me to that nuanced discussion. Even AMAs are now outrage bait, with all the top comments/ questions being snarky stabs at the AMA guest.

Your comment is either only valid for very small subs, or you're a time traveler from 8 years ago.

(I've seen far more "celebrities" or experts pop on comment sections about themselves or their expertise here than on reddit. FWIW.

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My front page of reddit is different from yours. If you only join garbage subs, of course you're going to see garbage threads on your home page. The question is, why do you do that to yourself?

Likewise, some threads on this site are garbage, too. It's easy enough to hide them and move on, though.

I agree, I was mostly talking about the default reddit experience.

HN has surprise AMAs instead of scheduled ones. A post will be talking about something and someone will start discussing it and then you realize you’re reading one of the original coders.

For a handful of programming discussions on HN that is true, but whenever HN starts touching categories which I have academic or professional experience - such as social sciences, business, devops, or cybersecurity - they become dumpster fire (AND I DARE YOU TELL ME DUNNING-KRUGER. I TRIPLE DOG DARE YOU).

I've also found certain subreddits now provide better value to discussions than HN at this point.

Sure, many such subreddits

- /r/AskHistorians

- ...

Ehm well I can't think of any more x)

This only happens on HN because these coders don’t comment on any other social media platform.

Not a traveler, but I have been on HN for almost 15 years now, so I’ve seen this play out far too often to ignore it. This shit can only fool the people who think they’ve discovered gold and are too committed to call it what it is: lipstick on a pig.

Whether or not the commenters on Reddit tend to shitpost AMAs doesn’t speak to the fact that AMAs occur there, and the people give long winded answers to questions and talk at length about things. Literally there are people there whose answers to each question is a blog post entry on HN.

Usually the reason why celebrities/experts pop on comment sections here is to correct others. Which again, is just sad that the community here is naive with misinformation and cargo culling.

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