mims

Re:How does HN keep the signal:noise ratio high? on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @01:26PM (#3644210)

Thanks! It seems as if, beyond the mechanics of the site, iv) is the most important. Reddit has all the tools of HN, does it not? Yet it's much more dillute, and still has trolls.

How does HN keep the signal:noise ratio high?

Posted by mims on Sunday February 26, 2012 @01:13PM
from the self-post dept.

I'm a journalist and contributing editor at Tech Review. I've been lucky to have some of my work featured on HN, and I find it a consistently excellent source of thought-provoking ideas. I'm wondering how 1) HN keeps the signal:noise ratio high, and 2) whether this might be generalizable to other communities on the web. I hope to include any responses to this question in a write-up on Tech...

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Re:Chatbot Wears Down Proponents of Anti-Science Nonsense on Wednesday November 03, 2010 @11:18PM (#1867518)

This is the funniest thing I've ever read on HN. - Signed, the guy who wrote the original piece for TR