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Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
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Re: Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
#72The thing with HN is that there are a lot of interesting threads that get increasingly drowned in "drama" contents: stuff about politics, the NSA, silicon valley drama... See the G+ outrage lately: there are three articles about that at the top of the frontpage that say exactly the same thing with exactly the same comments. It's reddit/4chan tier "pitchforking". The problem seems to be that the community is growing q…
Do posts like "I'm leaving Hacker News" count as drama content?
I understand this was facetious, but it's not a bad question. How do you implement something like that while circumventing user posts?
Re: Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
#73http://lobste.rs
Looks great. Would you be kind enough to hook me up with an invite?
Re: Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
#74Theneeds [1]?
We built Theneeds with a similar idea in mind, that people should come and just find interesting stuff, personalized according to their interests (we learn from users' activity to get smarter about what the interests really are).
We focus on a broader range of topics than just tech & science, thought there is a good selection about that too.
Re: Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
#75The thing with HN is that there are a lot of interesting threads that get increasingly drowned in "drama" contents: stuff about politics, the NSA, silicon valley drama... See the G+ outrage lately: there are three articles about that at the top of the frontpage that say exactly the same thing with exactly the same comments. It's reddit/4chan tier "pitchforking". The problem seems to be that the community is growing q…
Alternatively, only activate voting on comments when new users reach a certain karma threshold (does this exist already?), and only activate voting on stories when users reach a certain higher karma threshold.
You need 500 pts to vote on HN
Re: Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
#76Quora is quite good.
Re: Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
there are three articles about that at the top of the frontpage that say exactly the same thing with exactly the same comments. Worse, two were based on the same guy at G+ raving about the whole thing.[1] I'm a little curious about how the stories hit the front page and have stayed up so long. I don't know if it's fully organic, if Google's reputation has really suffered that much, if it's specific to the HN communit…
What are some of the good subreddits that would appeal to an HN audience?
Used to be /r/programming... not anymore though. Just go to techcrunch and wired.com, that way you'll see everything that makes it to proggit - but only once, instead of every day for a week. The more specific the better, provided there's a lot of subscribers and there's regular new developments in the topic of interest. So /r/doctorwho sucks pretty hard when the show isn't in season. There's a lot of crocheted figurines, etc, it's painful.
/r/bicycling, /r/motorcycles and /r/autos are all great, but /r/justrolledintotheshop is brilliant because of how specific it is and how there's always new content - ie. picutres of idiotic things customers bring to their mechanics. /r/scooters is not great because the community is too small.
The subreddit for my phone is of interest. Programming languages that I'm trying to learn - Python, Scala. Skills I'm interested in - welding, CNC machinery.
Well, that's a good start if you're into things on wheels and programming, anyway.
Re: Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
#78The thing with HN is that there are a lot of interesting threads that get increasingly drowned in "drama" contents: stuff about politics, the NSA, silicon valley drama... See the G+ outrage lately: there are three articles about that at the top of the frontpage that say exactly the same thing with exactly the same comments. It's reddit/4chan tier "pitchforking". The problem seems to be that the community is growing q…
> It's a problem all successful communities face No it's not. It's a problem all large and free communities face. Try looking for private communities, and the quality is much higher. To get into these types of communities, you have to pass an interview or maybe pay monthly (I don't belong to these types, but I've heard good stuff about their quality). e.g. want a good business community? Maybe have a fee for $100/mon…
How does the ability to pay indicate ability to make worthwhile contributions? Or, how does inability/unwillingness to pay or prove yourself in some other way relate to an inability to make worthwhile contributions? (quality of posts, comments, etc)
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's the same with The Something Awful Forums. It is $10 to join, and it really helps keep the trolls out. One of the best communities on the web.
What? SA has possibly the worst community on the web. It keeps people out alright, but not trolls.
I think you might be conflating the terms "troll" and "asshole." If you show up to a subforum on SA and start actually trolling people by posting spam or a bunch of NSFL images or something, you'll get banned pretty much instantly.