Re:Kidfluencers' Rampant YouTube Marketing Creates Minefield...
by dang on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @09:19PM
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That's easy: comments like break the site guidelines and are bad for HN.
I don't want to pick on floren personally, though. That account has a fine posting history and seems as concerned about comment quality as you are (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19039487). The problem is rather that most bad-for-HN comments are unintentional, at least once you scrape out the bottom of the barrel.
As for HN's reputation vis-à-vis Reddit, I think that's been pretty stable for years now.
I don't want to pick on floren personally, though. That account has a fine posting history and seems as concerned about comment quality as you are (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19039487). The problem is rather that most bad-for-HN comments are unintentional, at least once you scrape out the bottom of the barrel.
As for HN's reputation vis-à-vis Reddit, I think that's been pretty stable for years now.