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.