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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 ganset »

areyousure wrote: post #76
IanCal wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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. It is at least currently in the subreddit rules page, as linked to on the main site. "Wikipedia, or any other single tertiary resource, used by itself no…

The comment I was responding to was written by a moderator, who saw my comment and edited their comment to hedge their incorrect claim. They messaged me but my comment was not reinstated. I don't think that a subreddit that bans links to Wikipedia can be considered a good source of information.

This is incredible. Did you spend more than 10 seconds even reading the sidebar?

To post an answer on /r/AskHistorians you have to have a degree in the field in question or proven experience in the field.

I don't think that people who consider Wikipedia the end-all-be-all knowledgebase should be considered for anything.

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

#82

Post by areyousure »

ganset wrote: post #81
areyousure wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The comment I was responding to was written by a moderator, who saw my comment and edited their comment to hedge their incorrect claim. They messaged me but my comment was not reinstated. I don't think that a subreddit that bans links to Wikipedia can be considered a good source of information.

This is incredible. Did you spend more than 10 seconds even reading the sidebar? To post an answer on /r/AskHistorians you have to have a degree in the field in question or proven experience in the field. I don't think that people who consider Wikipedia the end-all-be-all knowledgebase should be considered for anything.

I did read the sidebar. [The Hacker News guidelines contain the following text: Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."]

I was not posting an answer. I was correcting an error in an answer, and I thought that showing that it contradicted Wikipedia was productive. (The automated implementation of the subreddit rules disagreed.) I thought it would be great if my comment resulted in either the answer or the Wikipedia article being edited so that they were in line; this objective was vaguely achieved.

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

#83

Post by IanCal »

areyousure wrote: post #76
IanCal wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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. It is at least currently in the subreddit rules page, as linked to on the main site. "Wikipedia, or any other single tertiary resource, used by itself no…

The comment I was responding to was written by a moderator, who saw my comment and edited their comment to hedge their incorrect claim. They messaged me but my comment was not reinstated. I don't think that a subreddit that bans links to Wikipedia can be considered a good source of information.

> I don't think that a subreddit that bans links to Wikipedia can be considered a good source of information.

I don't believe it does as I recently posted a comment with a wikipedia link. It does, however require more authoritative sources than wikipedia, mine did at least have several other corroborating sources. Perhaps the auto-mod is set to remove comments without at least one non-wiki link.

They encourage people who would otherwise have linked just to wikipedia to hunt out the sources that claim comes from and use those instead.

I hope they put in a note in their comment or said thanks at least, I'd hope for more there.

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

#84

Post by dfc »

rms_returns wrote: post #68
otalp wrote: post #58

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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.

The top post in /r/linux right now is a link to imgur that is a screen cap of an Amazon question:

Q: Does this keyboard support Linux?

A: The keyboard is advanced but you can not run Linux on the keyboard.

This is probably not what most people think of when they are looking for serious and in-depth Linux discussions.

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

#85

Post by areyousure »

IanCal wrote: post #83
areyousure wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The comment I was responding to was written by a moderator, who saw my comment and edited their comment to hedge their incorrect claim. They messaged me but my comment was not reinstated. I don't think that a subreddit that bans links to Wikipedia can be considered a good source of information.

> I don't think that a subreddit that bans links to Wikipedia can be considered a good source of information. I don't believe it does as I recently posted a comment with a wikipedia link. It does, however require more authoritative sources than wikipedia, mine did at least have several other corroborating sources. Perhaps the auto-mod is set to remove comments without at least one non-wiki link. They encourage people…

Yes, as my post a few back mentioned, I think the automated ban is for comments that include a link to Wikipedia but not elsewhere.

They were nice about things; the PM read "AskHistorians doesn't allow Wikipedia, but .... I clarified in my OP .... Thanks for prompting the clarification!"

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

#86

Post by lwhalen »

MrJagil wrote: post #36

I'd love one for music production. Muffwiggler is the best so far, but it's just an old school messageboard. All the subreddits seem overly focused on EDM, and entirely without the scientific vibe that HN has.

I've heard that Gearslutz is quite good for music production, although I haven't spent much time there myself.

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

#87

Post by onembk »

BinaryIdiot wrote: post #80
akvadrako wrote: post #15

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How could anybody find a community on Slack? Are they listed somewhere?

I've seen them posted online. But it would be pretty interesting if there were a way to discover public teams.

Late to the party, but http://www.slacklist.info/

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

#88

Post by BinaryIdiot »

onembk wrote: post #87
BinaryIdiot wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've seen them posted online. But it would be pretty interesting if there were a way to discover public teams.

Late to the party, but http://www.slacklist.info/

Well look at that, thanks!

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

#90

Post by webmaven »

NicoJuicy wrote: post #42
mubub wrote: post #28

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I would be interested in this. I come from an art background and many people use aldaily.com to get a sort of curated collection of articles. But adding the voting from HN would be interesting. That said, you are right that academics are protective. Much of what they are actually interested in is pay-walled as well.

I once created a HN like alternative - http://tagly.azurewebsites.net/ - Has Tags - Reputation - Votes used as favorites - Permission based roles ( not everyone can see all tags), according to tags --> custom roles or permissions on the topics. - Personal tag header ( you can pick which tag you want to show in your menu) - Custom tag based posts ( eg. when you add the tag newsletter, it adds 1 text input named subjec…

You should post this as a "Show HN:".
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