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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 bane »

IanCal wrote: post #39
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…

It's important to think of reddit more like a new Usenet. It's a collection of communities, not one monolithic thing. You find the ones you like and discard the rest. Something like HN could theoretically just be a /r/HN (in fact there is a Hackernews subreddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/hackernews/).

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

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Post by redsummer »

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.

MF is a pay-to-post site, so it is skewed towards people who will pay. It's the same as those small elite colleges where people will study something impractical for an exhorbitant fee. You would only pay if you agreed with whatever the orthodoxy is. And it becomes self-selecting, and self-perpetuating. The people on MF are the sort of people who would say "OMG I can't believe anyone voted for Trump, because nobody I know did"

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

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Post by sctb »

campbellmorgan wrote: post #24

I've always thought that a simple HN-like site directed at those of us interested in art, critical theory and literature would be wonderful. Does anybody know of one? I would be interested in helping set one up... One of the difficulties is that artists and academics tend to be very protective of interesting sources as I think intellectual individuality is much more of a currency than in the tech world.

If you have interesting content to post and discuss in those areas, please post them to HN! Those definitely qualify as “gratifying one's intellectual curiosity”.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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

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Post by gravypod »

aban wrote: post #49
gravypod wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you obtain an invite? That seems crazy.

You can come hang out in #lobsters on freenode and ask for one. I can invite you both if you like.

Yea that'd be cool. My email is in my profile. Thanks!

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

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Post by dang »

tkxxx7 wrote: post #54
akvadrako wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How about the first sentence, "Women are expected to regulate the emotions of men as well as themselves." And the first comment, "Anyhow — men who don’t understand their entire emotional range are prone to anger because they can’t meet their own needs." And the 2nd comment, "I also wonder if that guy wonders if his girlfriends ever had to hire sex workers to manage their emotional needs before they met him." I don't…

Making comments about certain kinds of men does not equal "women are better than men". Feel free to mutter "not all men", to yourself, every night.

> Feel free to mutter "not all men", to yourself, every night.

You made a substantive point and then ruined it with a personal attack. Please don't do that—it breaks the HN guidelines and makes the thread even worse. Your comment would be fine with just the first sentence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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

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Post by kawera »

colinbartlett wrote: post #40
crncosta wrote: post #10

Lobsters https://lobste.rs/

I enjoy reading Lobsters, but the invite-only nature of it has had me sidelined as a passive observer for years and that's frustrating.

Would gladly send you an invite but I need your email for that.

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

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Post by rms_returns »

otalp wrote: post #58
dfc wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sadly, it seems it is also the only example. Can you name four or five other subreddits that come close? I always felt like vommiting when I saw people recommend /r/woodworking, but I couldn't figure out why. I was reading an unrelated critique of /r/fitness one day and somebody summed up my feelings about /r/woodworking perfectly "/r/_______ is a bunch of beginners masquerading as experts."

r/AskScience, r/AskAnthropology, r/TrueFilm, r/DepthHub and r/TrueReddit are those that come to mind. None of these are some perfect, but neither is HN and IMO you find a lot of great content there that you wouldn't find here.

r/Linux and r/Technology are also good ones for those interested in CS and tech stuff.

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

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Post by areyousure »

IanCal wrote: post #39
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…

I don't know about the quality of moderation in r/AskHistorians however.

I read a recent answer there whose first sentence was the opposite of reality. Thinking of how I could demonstrate this easily and effectively, where any person could follow up easily and see what's right, I posted a comment saying it contradicted the second sentence of the Wikipedia article on the topic.

My comment was automatically banned by the auto-moderator because it had a link to Wikipedia and no other links. I tried reading the subreddit rules before posting, but it's pretty hard to find this rule -- indeed, it is not explicitly stated as far as I can tell.

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