Re:Ex-Reddit exec launches 'Imzy,' a warmer, fuzzier Reddit
by dageshi on Saturday April 23, 2016 @07:01PM
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I think it's more focused in the sense that you'll have many more "serious" people looking at what you write, at least some of them will be domain experts in the topics being discussed. This causes people to post much more conservatively and less frequently than they would do on reddit.
The flip side of that is that reddit will throw up discussions on things which would never in a million years show up on HN, this one today for instance I found very interesting
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4g1pgu/serious_t...
I personally don't know of another "forum" where a post like that could happen and get such interesting responses.
Re:Ex-Reddit exec launches 'Imzy,' a warmer, fuzzier Reddit
by rtpg on Saturday April 23, 2016 @11:09PM
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I think that a huge part of it is simply the amount of people here. There are some pretty unfocused subreddits that are decently small and end up with a lot less BS than you might have in HN (esp. threads about Uber, Code of Conducts, etc.)
The moderation, of course, plays a huge part too though.
I'm not sure that fully explains why HN is so much better than Reddit.
Obviously HN is more focused than Reddit overall, but it's ostensibly less focused than many dedicated subreddits. Yet the quality of conversation here is invariable superior.
I don't think karma is the culprit. It exists on HN and works quite well—I put effort into my comments to ensure my ideas are clear and when a post is downvoted it makes me reconsider my writing.