Re:Longer Discussions in HN?
by cahoot_bird on Sunday February 05, 2023 @01:50PM
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I think HN tends to attract more tech minded people for some reason.
I've read reddits /r/cscareerquestions for a number of years. I've observed it mostly tends to be new grads or unemployed doing the upvoting and questions, I think most successful people get what they need then leave.
As an example, in cscareerquestions someone asked a question about a coworker joking with him about NSFW drawings he found the person drew when younger, getting on his nerves. The most upvoted response? Tell HR. The update posted later? The person got fired. He did the most upvoted thing. Only one person told him not to, and was downvoted.
Perhaps occasionally go to reddit for trends of some form, but I don't like to go to reddit for things that aren't common knowledge. It might be good for observing trends, but I don't think reddit is likely to contain insider business knowledge upvoted for example.
I've read reddits /r/cscareerquestions for a number of years. I've observed it mostly tends to be new grads or unemployed doing the upvoting and questions, I think most successful people get what they need then leave.
As an example, in cscareerquestions someone asked a question about a coworker joking with him about NSFW drawings he found the person drew when younger, getting on his nerves. The most upvoted response? Tell HR. The update posted later? The person got fired. He did the most upvoted thing. Only one person told him not to, and was downvoted.
Perhaps occasionally go to reddit for trends of some form, but I don't like to go to reddit for things that aren't common knowledge. It might be good for observing trends, but I don't think reddit is likely to contain insider business knowledge upvoted for example.