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But it doesn't matter. Another thing that's worse about HN is that you can now accuse anybody who posts things you dislike of being a bot.
It's unsurprising that Sean, who posts several times a day, is eager to dismiss my criticism of non-value-addding posting addicts.
It's frankly depressing how few places there are to have quality conversations, particularly for general tech.
Sometimes I wonder if the format actually helps. I suspect that when you know you can pretend you didn't see a reply to your comment, you feel less likely to need to defend yourself when you realize you might be wrong. You can just close the tab and, since there was no notification, just move on without the ego hit.
It has a style that allows people to _pretend_ they're having substantive conversation, but it's mostly just people blathering in a distinct style without ever listening.
Yeah I used to learn so much across quite a few forums. Most of those communities are dead, dying, filled with bots or filled with people making shit up/just posting lousy jokes now. A lot of folks have jumped to Discord, which frankly, isn't for me, so feeling a bit lost on where to surf these days