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Re:Ask HN: How can HN be more addictive than Reddit? by craftyguy on Sunday March 03, 2019 @03:02PM (#19296485)
> Signal To Noise Ratio

I find the Noise to Signal ratio on HN to be incredibly high.

For example, multiple posts per day[0] reminding us that facebook is 'bad' and 'spying on us' (no shit). When whatevercoin was a thing, there were many posts per day about how bit whatevercoins were the {best,worst,crashing,soaring,smart,dumb,future}.

HN started off with some direction, but now it seems to be turning into the fake internet point machine that many reddit sites are: where folks are rewarded for (re)posting whatever the 'hot topic' is of the month, and bolstered by millions of tangential or anectodal comments from people who never made it past the headline.

0. http://funkyimg.com/i/2S1gE.png

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Re:Ask HN: How can HN be more addictive than Reddit? by sgillen on Sunday March 03, 2019 @05:38PM (#19297388)
Is it “incredibly” high though? I think you have legitimate criticisms but compared to other news aggregator/ social media sites I think the quality is very high.
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Re:Ask HN: How can HN be more addictive than Reddit? by craftyguy on Sunday March 03, 2019 @07:33PM (#19297920)
Compared to sites like lobste.rs and some super moderated topic-specific subreddits, it is 'incredibly' high.
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Re:Ask HN: How can HN be more addictive than Reddit? by rc-1140 on Monday March 04, 2019 @12:29PM (#19303075)
Funny you should mention lobsters; while it doesn't happen as often as it does here, that site also likes to bash us on our collective noggins that $internetThing is bad and spying on us as if we didn't get it. Probably the only reason it doesn't happen with the frequency it happens here is that lobsters has a much smaller active poster userbase.
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