HN loves to sneer at reddit, but reddit (and HN) is just a microcosm of humanity. If you want to see groupthink/mobs on here, enter any thread about the benefits or drawbacks of cryptocurrencies.

Everyone deserves a good sneer now and then but I come to HN because people generally look closer / think about second order effects and so on.

Reddit generally not at all.

> Everyone deserves a good sneer now and then but I come to HN because people generally look closer / think about second order effects and so on.

Wait until you encounter HN's incorrect hot-takes that get upvoted to top-comment in a niche field you have expertise or personal experience in - especially if it's in a non-tech field. I wouldn't bet on HNs superiority over Reddit, except for a very narrow band of fields. A comment doesn't have to be correct - it just needs to conform to audiences biases in a seemingly cogent way, right or wrong.

Yeah, I've seen this before. Doesn't give me a lot of confidence in the collective wisdom of hn.

That's generally true of the large/default subreddits with no community guidelines.

Those poor hapless cryptocurrencies, wrongfully accused of murder. I implore my fellow HN participants to please consider the feelings of cryptocurrencies before engaging in vigilante justice against them.

Seriously, maybe some of the criticism of cryptocurrencies here is over the top, but it is not even remotely comparable to what reddit has done.

Did I miss something? IIRC Boston police asked foe help finding the people who carried out the bombing and then found them with the help of the general public. The two individuals did carry out the attack, one is dead and one went to court. Was there more to this?

Yes.

https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-falsely-accuses-sunil...

Well fuck. Come on Reddit!

Reddit started a media driven frenzy over this missing person that further hurt an already tramatized family: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunil_Tripathi

As far as I am aware, crowd sourcing via social media did not assist with indentifying and catching the suspects.

Oh, how did Reddit do that? Or are you all just full of shit? Do you think there are people who don't use both sites?

Feel free to do your own research as the whole process by which this misinformation was created and then spread is pretty well documented. There are quite a few sites and journalists that bear responsibility, but reddit is where it all started.

Your tone is not appropriate to HN.

Yes, there was. Reddit went after the wrong person.