Something Awful, D&D forum. Maybe not insightful but at least civil. $10 accounts mean being a shithead has consequences.
by D&D do you mean dungeons and dragons?
Ask HN: Where do you go for civil discussion on the Internet?
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Re: Ask HN: Where do you go for civil discussion on the Internet?
#112I'd say Reddit. There are some heavy moderated subreddits for insightful discussions, like reddit.com/r/truereddit. Because Reddit has a voting system like HN, quality content is being upvoted and shown as first. If you search you can probably find some more subreddits with less general content. And HN is of course a really great website for such discussions, with a lot of highly intelligent people that post quite le…
> There are some heavy moderated subreddits for insightful discussions, like reddit.com/r/truereddit
True Reddit is decidedly not heavily moderated:
> This subreddit is run by the community. (The moderators just remove spam.)
Re: Ask HN: Where do you go for civil discussion on the Internet?
#113I go to one of these sites: * https://www.meetup.com/ * https://creativemornings.com/ Then I find an event and then I go to that event. The internet just is not conducive to civil discussion because regardless of the site, OP is always a faggot. (=
+1 for "OP is always a faggot."
Please don't comment like this here.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you go for civil discussion on the Internet?
#114BBC Radio 4 is enough for me. No need to hear what my friends think about politics.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you go for civil discussion on the Internet?
#115I'd say Reddit. There are some heavy moderated subreddits for insightful discussions, like reddit.com/r/truereddit. Because Reddit has a voting system like HN, quality content is being upvoted and shown as first. If you search you can probably find some more subreddits with less general content. And HN is of course a really great website for such discussions, with a lot of highly intelligent people that post quite le…
reddit.com/r/askhistorians is a goldmine. I love sitting in the cheap seats for some of the discussions there.
On the flip-side, their high standards make it difficult to contribute to the conversation.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you go for civil discussion on the Internet?
#116I spend most of my time in small, private, invite-only forums these days.
As I get older, the problem with most forums is not so much lack of civility, but rather tediousness. Eventually, I have heard all the arguments, and if new comers to the forum hash out the same arguments over-and-over again, then I lose interest. Also I have found that the truth on a variety of issues is extremely politically incorrect, and so you either get a choice between forums that ban nearly all politically incorrect content or forums that are unmoderated and allow any vulgar or spiteful content. Neither are appealing to me.
I have been thinking of the of trying to start a forum for people who are very intellectually curious and not easily triggered by politically incorrect topics. Sign up here if you are interested, and you'll get an email if I decide to go through with it -- https://countersearch.net/forum
Re: Ask HN: Where do you go for civil discussion on the Internet?
#117I find this area to be best filled by blogs. The format allows long ideas to be explored in a way no "social" site can. The comments sections are better at being on-topic, because there are less people stumbling in from another corner of a generalist platform. Or comments are disabled, and if you want to participate in a back-and-forth, you need to start your own blog and have something worthwhile to say. Barrier to…
I found this leads me into a bubble of internet that only shows me what I agree with. I've found myself going back to reddit just to get both sides of the story. It's useful when say the Trump fans post things that lefties find hard answering, those are the points that I find myself thinking about late at night.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you go for civil discussion on the Internet?
#118I mostly stay here. The amount of political and economic discussion here is what I personally consider enough in my life; I don't think looking for more sources would improve SNR for me. I sometimes like to peruse Reddit for some well-defined topics - the trick is to find an appropriate subreddit for it. So, for instance, when I want to follow SpaceX news, I'll tune in to /r/spacex, because quite a lot of people ther…
The problem with HN for politics and economics is its decidedly Silicon Valley, libertarian and white male slant, often self-servingly pedantically amoral. The civility here is often arrived at by burying comments that challenge this self-serving slant. Or by an algorithm that systematically buries articles and users (whose accounts accrue ranking penalties) that generate any heated debate by challenging the slant. W…
It is unclear whether you are making the argument that HN users flag posts based on political leanings or flag politically controversial topics.
The downvotes are most likely due to the negativeness of the post, coupled with an ambiguous argument.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you go for civil discussion on the Internet?
#119http://metafilter.com
Not anymore, unfortunately. Metafilter used to be a great community 10-15 years ago, but these days it is a heavily censored echo chamber.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you go for civil discussion on the Internet?
#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem with HN for politics and economics is its decidedly Silicon Valley, libertarian and white male slant, often self-servingly pedantically amoral. The civility here is often arrived at by burying comments that challenge this self-serving slant. Or by an algorithm that systematically buries articles and users (whose accounts accrue ranking penalties) that generate any heated debate by challenging the slant. W…
Silent downvotes right on schedule! I think civil and honest discussion would be better served without the anonymous down-votes. One can still retain privacy with a pseudonym. I find it ironic that Hacker News is not Hackable! The most important thing about HN, its ranking algorithm and reputation system (karma), is closed and not hackable in any way. I know HN wishes it could come up with a better algorithm, and eve…
I think it would be solved by requiring a comment with each downvote. The motivations for an upvote are obvious but a downvote should have to explain why, even if it something as simple as "citation needed" or "factually incorrect, here's why."
I often get the sense that anonymous and unexplained downvotes carry a sense of "this post is so obviously wrong it defies the need for explanation," which means that nobody learns anything from the exchange.
EDIT: I got downvoted for this comment and I have no idea why