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Comment by pc86 | Hacker News Reader

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob[0] illusion[1], as[2] old[3] as[4] the[5] hills.[6] [7]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=926703

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=633099

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=582513

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=289254

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=253657

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=66057

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13852

[7] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Hacker News has always been reddit. All these comments are just people seeing through the matrix.

Hacker News is Reddit with a thesaurus. This is only an insult to Hacker News if you think Reddit is bad, but they clearly share the same dynamic brought on by the perverse incentives of the "karma" system and individually threaded comments. Classic discussion forum interfaces (e.g. vBulletin or phpBB) allow for much richer and calmer communication.

The problem with the karma system is that it incentivizes simple comments and appealing to common human instincts. I often regret it when my score goes up drastically because I think that I made a low effort comment that exploits ingrained biases instead of actually contributing to the discussion.

I am personally not against the idea of sorting comments based on a score but the score itself shouldn't be visible to anyone.

I don't care at all about internet points, but I do get a chuckle when I notice my karma drop by double digits in a short time period because it means someone was mad enough at one of my comments that they went to my profile page and downvoted everything they could.

I think “Reddit but smarter” is a legitimate point of differentiation. I gave up Reddit for HN because despite all the issues you probably have in mind, the average quality of interaction and information is marginally better here.

Alternatively, reddit but nerdier and less fun. Granted I've only seen wallstreetbets which might not be entirely representative...

The overlap between HN and Reddit must be huge. Folks just take off their fedora and put on a panama hat.

I know it's as "old as the hills", and so on, but this was the first time I was feeling it too. But I think it's because one satiric comment just got a lot of attention [1], then other people started to do a bit of satire as well. Which is why it feels Reddit like. Looking at the other comments and top child comments, I don't see it either.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26261247

Hacker News was never good.

It's funny to post that next to a junkchat thread started by one of the most famous redditors.

9 times out of 10 someone says this, they're taking one tiny interaction and making a huge stretch.

But this post definitely has a very bizarre comment section compared to most.

And not just any one comment, but almost every thread. Maybe it has to do with the "Gamestonks" moniker and what it entails

You missed the point of my post entirely. I said that the comments on this one post felt like Reddit. Specifically I noted that feels different from HN.

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