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Comment by lebaux | Hacker News Reader

HN should prey Reddit keeps their marbles together, because you all know the place big chunk of their ursebase would fled to. I know I did.

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I'm very thankful the user culture and the moderation policy here is geared towards productive discussion on focused topics. It's not a one size fits all social media site, its meant for tech and startup discussion. Plus, people don't seem to reward stupid puns, pithy comments, twitter style "hot takes", begging for upvotes, etc.. I would hope this keeps HN somewhat inoculated from becoming another Reddit.

You're giving HN too much credit. Reddit may be scraping the bottom of the barrel intellectually but humans pretty much all have decent skills at fitting in. Reddit users are perfectly capable of coming here and not cracking puns if that's what it takes to make the virtue points counter in the top right get bigger.

There's obscene amounts of in-group signaling here too. It just takes different forms. Forms other users can adapt to if they have motivation.

Show me a better platform then

e.g. the whole "Paul Graham" thing. Wonderful guy, but I've inadvertently stumbled onto what appeared to be the HN equivalent of dog-whistling when it comes to him and Lisp. It was unexpected at first.

Friendly tip (in case that wasn't autocorrect in action) - "prey" is someone/something that is hunted, "pray" is what people do to talk to their favorite immortal deity or what-have-you.

Thank you, my mistake.

When it comes to non-startup content, then hn is not the best choice. lobste.rs and lemmy.ml are more user friendly, and then there are plenty of other options, as can be seen in the subreddit for reddit alternatives.

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