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Re: Ask HN: What are other minimal, all-content, no-frills discussion sites like HN?

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Post by djmobley »

k__ wrote: post #20

I like the topic boards of 4chan. The general stuff like /b/, /r9k/ and /pol/ is pretty crappy. But stuff like /fit/ helped me a lot. No voting karma crap, just anons posting stuff, read what you like, hide what you hate. the end.

Agreed. 4chan is a nice antidote to all the karma whoring and gaming of Reddit.

Re: Ask HN: What are other minimal, all-content, no-frills discussion sites like HN?

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Post by 3131s »

akvadrako wrote: post #14
jacalata wrote: post #5

http://metafilter.com

I just visited and the top post this month is http://www.metafilter.com/163757/Emotions-are-Work , which was the most anti-male comments I've been exposed to in a while. The name meta filter implies to me this site wanted to be somewhat neutral and open-ended, but my impression so far is it's become dominated by SJW types, which is going to make it unreadable by me.

Just quickly browsing through it, I didn't see anything anti-male. It did strike me that there are many female posters there. Can you point out what you mean specifically?

Re: Ask HN: What are other minimal, all-content, no-frills discussion sites like HN?

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Post by ropeladder »

akvadrako wrote: post #14
jacalata wrote: post #5

http://metafilter.com

I just visited and the top post this month is http://www.metafilter.com/163757/Emotions-are-Work , which was the most anti-male comments I've been exposed to in a while. The name meta filter implies to me this site wanted to be somewhat neutral and open-ended, but my impression so far is it's become dominated by SJW types, which is going to make it unreadable by me.

It's true that anyone who dismisses people as 'SJW types' is probably going to experience a lot of cognitive dissonance reading metafilter.

Metafilter has a lot of female users that feel safe expressing their opinion and telling their experiences. Not to rag on HN, because generally the discussions here are pretty respectful, but gender diversity at metafilter is one thing I really value about the site.

Re: Ask HN: What are other minimal, all-content, no-frills discussion sites like HN?

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Post by IanCal »

bane wrote: post #30

Pick a topic, find the subreddit for it. If you don't like the vibe there, make your own subreddit and moderate it -- or offer to help mod the primary and let them know it's because you want to change the vibe -- lots of mods really don't have the time to do a great job. Go advertise your "just like /r/floobinart but with more zimbledings" sub everywhere to get people to come to it.

If people haven't tried looking for smaller subreddits or more controlled subreddits then I'd highly encourage them to. Reddit may have a huge amount of low effort content and frankly highly disturbing content, but some of the subreddits are absolutely fantastic. I'm not really into history but https://reddit.com/r/askhistorians is a treasure trove of fascinating information, with well sourced and detailed answers to the kind of questions non-history buffs might want to ask.

Reddit, with good moderation, is a world apart from what you see if you visit the main page.

On a side note, it's also a great place to go and see discussions around things you highly disagree with. It might help to understand the motivations of "the other side".

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