[beAbU]

HN is not much different (or better) in my opinion

I dislike the voting mechanism here. It incentivises me to optimize my posting to things that will maximise the votes, rather than things I think will add value to the community, even if it's controversial.

On a forum, if I say something stupid/against-the-grain, I am called out by the forum members, or we have a debate about it. On HN and on reddit, I'm downvoted into oblivion with very little in the way of any discussion that helps me learn and improve.

The only thing that makes HN better than reddit for me is the community of like-minded people, a general respect for the rules, and the fact that here we have fantastic moderators.

But I maintain that the underlying _system_ that is managing discourse here is flawed in it's design. I wonder what HN would look like if voting was abolished, and /active was the homepage, where the most actively discussed posts are the ones that filter to the top of the list.

[ryandrake]

I basically have switched to /active. IMO it's a stronger and more relevant set of articles, and tends not to be clogged with all the "Here's a thing, but with AI!" blogspam and endless number of "I ported this angular script to rust" turds that always seem to make it to the normal front page.