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The first time I saw the comments here on an education article (my area of expertise and career focus), I realized just how full of shit most of us are. It made me really closely consider every comment here through a VERY critical lense.

The articles are usually close but not quite accurate. The comments are usually entertaining but overall wildly inaccurate.

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Internet comments are essentially documented bar talk, and once you realize it, you stop angrily arguing with strangers all day.

Yeah but HN sort of bills itself as better than most places. It just simply is not; there's just a special sort of self confidence here that masks a ton of ignorance.

Yeah FWIW I think that's the aspect of this place I dislike the most. There's a sort of collective fiction that HN is a special place with better comments. At least Reddit has accepted that they're just the internet's version of bar gossip.

The best comments are the ones formed as questions. I'm as guilty as anyone, but it is far more productive in comment sections to ask questions rather than saber rattle or peacock in front of people. Just my opinion of course.

Why wasn't this a question?

> I'm as guilty as anyone

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