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Yet here you are


There are some real gems & genuine insight to be found. But the comments still follow a Pareto distribution and there's a lot that is worth disdain[1], IMO.

Besides, I found it's better when I don't take HN too seriously; I now often enjoy HN the way I "enjoy" Curb Your Enthusiasm

1. Often as a top comment too! A lot of inaccurate, stripped-of-nuance or outright ignorant hot takes get voted up if they confirm the biases of the majority of HN users.


Whatever you feelings may be, HN brings a breath of fresh air. Compared to other social media, its quite rare for commentary to devolve into nonsense.


Another possibility, you are bad at detecting nonsense


Possibly.

Though I generally would not catch nonsense about an 40-year old Microprocessor or some newfangled K8s setup.

So perhaps I should phrase the claim differently. The "quality" of nonsense on HN is remarkably better than other social sites.


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The problem with comments like this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30088471 is that they poison the ecosystem with more of the very thing you're complaining about, plus they lower the signal/noise ratio with tedious meta.

Supercilious posturing over other people is bad for comments here because it's reliably uninteresting. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use the site more in the intended spirit? We're trying for curious conversation here.


okay okay, I'll stop being so negative and try to guide discourse for the better here :)


Appreciated! That's basically the perfect response :)




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