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I don't want to sidetrack this with an HN vs. Reddit debate. The top story about this on Reddit has 14500+ comments. I couldn't really skim through them all in between the server timeouts, but it appears that the majority of them are non value-add.

As a story like this ages, my personal experience has been that the quality of comments on HN go UP while the quality of comments on Reddit go DOWN.

In regards to the parent post of this thread, I think that HN provides a valuable outlet for posting stories like this, and I personally feel it is within the overall HN "charter" for stories. It could turn out that this specific case balances out differently, but my personal opinion is that overall HN discussions for a given HN-worthy topic are more valuable than the comparative Reddit thread.