Ask HN: Hacker News like forums for other niches? • Hacker News Board

jancsika wrote: post #41

brudgers wrote: post #15

I suspect statistically, the HN for X is HN. A topic silo encourages people to behave in ways that might help them reach the top of the silo. Getting to the top is expedited by pushing other people down. Even worse, it is expedited by driving out expertise. The dynamics of HN prevent that. Topics so broad that being way outside your domain is the normal state of encountering an HN topic for everyone. Nobody has a wel…

> I suspect statistically, the HN for X is HN. I don't find that to be true for certain topics: * unions and unionization (apparently 9 out of 10 HN uncles agree unions are bad news for a mountain of uncles' evidence) * current state of research in the social sciences (you have to wade through inescapable trolls who wish to throw out entire fields of research because they once read an eviscerating blog by an angry gr…

> what other topics people find here that are typically filled with garbage

Well, for me, the subjects I know the most about, like (some aspects of) music, philosophy, chess. Full of people who know nothing about the subject misinforming others.

Re: Ask HN: Hacker News like forums for other niches?

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Post by bmitc » Wed, Jul 14, 2021, 7:34 PM UTC

seanicus wrote: post #107

bmitc wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is Reddit different from Hacker News aside from the existence (basically required due to the size) of subreddits?

Age range on here and tech-based outlook is much more mature than most of what's on Reddit. In many ways HN feels like Reddit when it first started. The audience and commenters were very similar to what HN is now; a lot of tech-y people and a heavy SV influence.

That addresses the cultural differences and not the structural differences, which is what the comment was talking about.