Re:Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app clien...
by Karunamon on Saturday January 05, 2013 @01:36PM
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That's just it, you're conflating the discussion software or the domain name with the communities using it.
>I cannot enjoy using a site where hundreds of thousands of people will read 'climate change is fake!!! scientists are liars!!' with no rebuttal
There are hundreds or thousands of communities out there where people are crapping on science, yet here you are on Hacker News.
About the only thing two unrelated subreddits share is the first part of their domain name. They have different moderators, different users, a different focus. They are effectively completely different communities - the fact that you treat them as related in any way but tangentially is an illusion, nothing more.
>I cannot enjoy using a site where hundreds of thousands of people will read 'climate change is fake!!! scientists are liars!!' with no rebuttal
There are hundreds or thousands of communities out there where people are crapping on science, yet here you are on Hacker News.
About the only thing two unrelated subreddits share is the first part of their domain name. They have different moderators, different users, a different focus. They are effectively completely different communities - the fact that you treat them as related in any way but tangentially is an illusion, nothing more.