

So Reddit's down. How is this community different? - 3minus1


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MichaelStubbs
Having only been here for a short time myself, I think the general answer to
your question would be: Hacker News is a lot more focused and has a much
richer (in terms of experience, knowledge) community with a much lower
tolerance for noise/novelty accounts/meme spouting/trolls.

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retroafroman
I upvoted this because it's completely accurate, but at the same time reminds
me of some of the things I don't like about HN. HN has a much higher tolerance
for people constantly submitting things from their blogs for self promotion.
If a person submits something self promotional on reddit and expects to escape
sharp criticism from the community, they better acknowledge that they are
being self promotional, and be awfully humble about it. Here, it seems to me
that everyone acknowledges that everyone else is out to make a buck and deals
with it.

tl;dr - HN has more tolerance for shameless self promotion than reddit as well
as fewer trolls.

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kunjaan
More news about entrepreneurship, startup, selling companies, management..

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wattjustin
Less trolls.

