[take4]

Well having a discussion in comments can be productive if you’re learning new things. And there is a lot of good content here that many of us wouldn’t discover otherwise.

I imagine reading research or news posts on HN and commenting can be more productive than, say, reading reddit’s r/pics and commenting.

[pbhjpbhj]

And yet probably 95%+ of the content will just be entertainment to us, not used productively.

Maybe for all of you fortunate to work in tech get professionally useful info here?

[paulcole]

We can imagine lots of things but it doesn’t mean they’re true. You’re just moving the goalposts so that HN doesn’t fit into the “bad” category.