Comment by bombcar
5 years ago
See: https://danluu.com/hn-comments/
>HN comments are terrible. On any topic I’m informed about, the vast majority of comments are pretty clearly wrong. ...
>And yet, I haven’t found a public internet forum with better technical commentary. On topics I'm familiar with, while it's rare that a thread will have even a single comment that's well-informed, when those comments appear, they usually float to the top. On other forums, well-informed comments are either non-existent or get buried by reasonable sounding but totally wrong comments when they appear, and they appear even more rarely than on HN.
Pretty much this. HN is still gazillion times better than everything else on the internet. And that is excluding the absolute gold comment from members that were part of those battle stories.
It is also a reason why I dont want to mention or see HN links in mainstream media. Although I think most reporters sort of know this as well and tend to not mention or link to HN as source.
My experience of Hacker News comments is not positive. They tend to be very convincing but actually kinda bullshit (or just vacuous), which is arguably a lot worse than communities that are transparent.
That’s what Dan is saying - but once in awhile you find a pearl in an area you know enough about to confirm.
Otherwise it’s best to assume everything you read here is full of it.
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