Ask HN: Where do you go for civil discussion on the Internet?

Re:Ask HN: Where do you go for civil discussion on the Inter... by mozumder on Friday September 02, 2016 @10:05AM (#12413102)

The problem with places like Reddit is that they rely on users to moderate.

The obvious problem with that is now stories are filtered based on populist mass appeal, instead of insightful or expert appeal.

Populist content is very different from expert content. Clickbait headline is populist content. A peer-reviewed journal headline is expert content.

Which one do you think is going to be upvoted in a place like Reddit?

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Re:Ask HN: Where do you go for civil discussion on the Inter... by curried_haskell on Friday September 02, 2016 @05:19PM (#12416364)

And the moderators are basically dictators over their sub. We believe so much in democracy that we practice it almost nowhere.

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Re:Ask HN: Where do you go for civil discussion on the Inter... by lintiness on Friday September 02, 2016 @02:23PM (#12415076)

depends on the moderators, obviously, but "academics" aren't immune to clickbait headlines (they advance on attention too).

the problem with politics is there's not black and white, clear cut right a wrong, but there's a never ending pile of people who insist there is.

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