Comment by Etheryte
Downvote, flag, and move on. These people don't understand the difference between HN and Reddit and there's always going to be more influx than you have bandwidth to talk out of it.
Downvote, flag, and move on. These people don't understand the difference between HN and Reddit and there's always going to be more influx than you have bandwidth to talk out of it.
Comparing the best of the best of Reddit against "most HN threads" isn't a good argument. Either compare the best of the best of both (I'd argue that HN comes out on top on most tech / programming related issues, and Reddit comes out on top more on more general topics), or compare averages to averages (Here HN comes out on top in my view).
The comparison of best-of-the best is not that useful in practice because you have to filter through so much noise to find it, so the average case is more useful in practice.
There are much better professional discussions on reddit, then in most HN threads. No need to be elitist.