[unethical_ban]

Crucial distinction:

* Individual identities are less important/influential on HN than twitter

* The community is much smaller on HN than twitter

* The conversation is more nuanced. We have paragraphs vs. 240 characters

* We have voting to squelch really low effort or trolling. The informal guidelines of the community discourage downvoting an otherwise decent post because you don't agree.

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This all adds up to a very different kind of "mob action".

[young_unixer]

I don't think those are the important differences.

Reddit has most of that, and a significant amount of subs there are just cesspools of hate.

[unethical_ban]

Points 2 and 4.

HN is like the equivalent of a small, curated, relatively mature subreddit that avoids being discovered by other reddit users.

[anigbrowl]

Accurate, but this is a somewhat imperfect strategy in many contexts. You will probably find this article interesting.

https://snap.stanford.edu/conflict/