[mattmanser]

You've never heard of the Reddit hug of death?

You must be pretty young to not remember it happening to lots of sites regularly for a couple of years.

Part of the reason imgur took off was because people would repost content to imgur when Reddit took the source down, the web comic or whatever.

[Klathmon]

I actually heard of the /. hug of death first, (and your comment feels a little condescending there) and I know of them, but it just feels like HN is such a smaller community compared to Reddit and I see the "hug of death" so much more frequently on HN than I do on reddit (or any other site like them).

I was just curious about the reason why. Like does HN have a large "silent" group, or is it something like that on HN sites climb much faster so I see them when they are down before they've had a chance to recover.

[mattmanser]

Why is it condescending?