[epmaybe]

That second point doesn't really make sense to me. You're reading links submitted on hacker news by other readers, isn't this basically the same thing?

An HN user is telling you that he read something that was particularly useful to the conversation at hand and wanted to share it, what's wrong with that?

[Jaruzel]

Maybe it's my anti-Reddit bias coming out, I dunno. shrug

(Which is ironic as I'm a Reddit mod on an active sub with ~4,500 members)