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Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News for different industries?

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Post by justherefortart »

SyneRyder wrote: post #23

For music production, it might be Gearslutz: https://www.gearslutz.com/board/ Reading the forum archives has been blowing my mind, seeing forum replies from the sound engineers on my favorite albums. Butch Vig did a thread answering questions about Nirvana's Nevermind [1], and Charlie Clouser was recently answering some questions about the Quake soundtrack & Astro-Creep: 2000 [2]. [1] https://www.gearslutz.com/board/…

https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php

Is pretty good for guitar / amp / etc info. (following your Music thread/theme)

Oh and: http://www.tdpri.com/

Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News for different industries?

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Post by tortasaur »

nsgi wrote: post #59
always_good wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, /r/programming is probably one of the most toxic subreddits itself. I've never found another subreddit where everyone is as unbearably angry and negative. Too many programmers suffer from social issues for a laissez faire community to be a fun place to frequent.

Believe me, there are plenty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communiti... https://www.reddit.com/r/HateSubredditOfTheDay/

With the exception of /r/fatpeoplehate, those aren't the subreddits I think of when I think of hateful subreddits, as they are mainly low-subscriber fringe groups. The same sentiment that FPH had lives on in other "angry" subreddits that reach mass appeal (like /r/justneckbeardthings, and much of /r/blackpeopletwitter).

I think a sentiment analysis of posts from the major subreddits would be an interesting read.

Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News for different industries?

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Post by craftyguy »

scheveningen wrote: post #32
vadimberman wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

True, but in the good subreddits the downvotes are brutal enough to deter or drop the offending post to the bottom.

IMO, the downvotes are a big problem with reddit, unfortunately. If people actually followed reddiquette (downvoting posts that do not add to the discussion) the system would work great. However, a large majority of people will just downvote what they disagree with. There is no way to keep this behavior in check. What happens is that counterpoints that do not align with the majority 'party line' are rarely seen on re…

> There is no way to keep this behavior in check.

Sure there is. For example, each user could be allocated a set number of 'downvotes to give' each day. If that limit were, say, 5, users would either 1) use them up very quickly if they didn't change their behavior, thus not able to downvote for the rest of the day or 2) change their behavior to use them more sparingly.

Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News for different industries?

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Post by smueller1234 »

kingosticks wrote: post #67
deepnotderp wrote: post #55

For computer architecture, realworldtech might count.

Is it alive? There's one story from Jan this year but then the one before that was 2016.

Oh, you should be looking for the forums! Not as likely as they used to be. But I have yet to find anything similar.

Sidenote: if anybody has suggestions for sources of in depth articles on computer architecture of the level of quality that David Kanter used to produce for RWT, I'd be very grateful.

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