Show HN: I built a community for women entrepreneurs and makers

Re:Show HN: I built a community for women entrepreneurs and ... by xeromal on Thursday January 23, 2020 @11:46AM (#22129037)

I'll give you an example that I personally deal with. I have a Tesla Model S and I use the /r/teslamotors subreddit daily. Ever since the Model 3 came out, a HUGE majority of users are Model 3 owners and they drown out any specific discussion on the Model S or X. Any time I ask a question on the daily thread, I get answers from people who don't really know what they're talking about in regards to specifics of my car. I can't easily ask if anyone's had this issue with their S like mine because 1 out of every 100 user owns an S and all the Model 3 discussion drowns us out.

Having a community specifically targeting a small sect of people can be a great thing. They feel like they'll get answers from people just like them.

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Re:Show HN: I built a community for women entrepreneurs and ... by edm0nd on Thursday January 23, 2020 @12:00PM (#22129223)

but isn't that exactly how reddit works?

Model S owners need to populate something like /r/TeslaModelS and then your issues are solved.

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Re:Show HN: I built a community for women entrepreneurs and ... by xeromal on Thursday January 23, 2020 @12:09PM (#22129320)

And that's what this person did until they got big enough to warrant their own site. They have plenty of Patreon support so what's the problem?

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Re:Show HN: I built a community for women entrepreneurs and ... by pezo1919 on Thursday January 23, 2020 @12:27PM (#22129539)

No one said there is any problem.

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Re:Show HN: I built a community for women entrepreneurs and ... by therealdrag0 on Thursday January 23, 2020 @12:04PM (#22129264)

Sounds like the implication is HackerNews shouldn't be a website, it should just be a subreddit.

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Re:Show HN: I built a community for women entrepreneurs and ... by blowski on Thursday January 23, 2020 @12:09PM (#22129327)

I find the difference between Reddit and HN is the quality of moderation. HN is fantastic at removing the low-value stuff like memes, "me too", snarky comments, etc. As a result, the signal-to-noise ratio is much higher, and it doesn't need loads of subreddits.

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Re:Show HN: I built a community for women entrepreneurs and ... by krapp on Thursday January 23, 2020 @12:12PM (#22129368)

There are plenty of technical and expert subreddits which police low-value comments just as well as HN. It's simply not the case that Hacker News, with its one or maybe two moderators, does a better job of moderation than every single subreddit.

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Re:Show HN: I built a community for women entrepreneurs and ... by xeromal on Thursday January 23, 2020 @12:12PM (#22129363)

Yup, that's the beauty of not hosting on reddit or HN. You can control your own destiny.

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