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by metalliqaz
1805 days ago
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For a long time I thought HN was free of the kinds of bad faith, intellectually dishonest interactions that you find in other popular forums. I was wrong, it's just a different crowd (one that isn't so clearly left or right). There is a vague "orthodoxy" and the downvotes will flow if you speak outside it. Recently, my account has apparently been flagged such that I'm only allowed to post a few comments per hour. I'm also suspecting that some users employ some kind of black list or tagging system to punish accounts that have demonstrated wrongthink. shrug It's still better than Ars Technica. |
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"Disagree" is actually a suggested downvote reason at Ars, with predictable results. Then they published a number of articles that turned out to be perfect bait for flame wars, trolling, and upvote/downvote wars. Comments dripping with twitter-style vitriol and outrage. Engagement up, quality down.
Perhaps they did it on purpose to watch the trash fires burn and the ad impressions roll in, but it really destroyed the comment section SNR and stank the whole place up. I've mostly quit reading Ars except via HN.