[Loughla]

I honestly don't know why you're being downvoted. This board skews young, and techy. Not young and medical.

Why would the comments or upvoted articles be any less problematic here than on facebook? Being really good at one thing (mostly tech) does not mean you're really good at all things.

It's fascinating on this board right now. So many medical experts. So many people who are experts at what metric is the best and most relevant metric. So many people who are, I'm betting, talking out of their knowledge base, but doing it articulately, instead of through memes, so that makes it better?

[troughway]

They need to do away with downvotes and use flagging as a means of getting rid of trolls and low-effort posts - f.e. "lol" and such replies. The same drivel they harp on about how FB is stifling contrarian thinking is very well present on HN.