[HN Gopher] HN Comments Are [still] Underrated (2016) ___________________________________________________________________ HN Comments Are [still] Underrated (2016) Author : metadat Score : 16 points Date : 2022-10-27 22:30 UTC (30 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (danluu.com) (TXT) w3m dump (danluu.com) | lapcat wrote: | (2016) | lifeisstillgood wrote: | Yes but the comments that _I_ make ... | | :-) | | Edit: I watched a documentary on the making of QI - a British TV | quiz where the questions or answers are supposed to be "Quite | Interesting". And the commentator pointed out that they have | changed the sort of facts they bring into the show - in the early | years it was all "you might think X but really it's Y". But there | are a limited number of "common misapprehensions", and the show | has / will exhaust them. So now they focus on Quite Interesting | things that you did not know before. | | I tend to think of HN as the process the QI team goes through - | lots of discussion, a few interesting things I did not know | before and very rarely something that will chnage my view on a | subject. It's just that can only happen so often. | | So yeah, most internet comments are bad. And even on HN which has | a high signal to noise ratio, the overall noise is still pretty | loud. But so far it's helping me. | | As the film says, it'll do till it dies or I find something | better. | ravenstine wrote: | Many people on HN are wrong, but it's the _quality_ of wrong on | HN that is vastly superior to the wrong you 'll find anywhere | else. | cpurdy wrote: | This comment is underrated. | throwup wrote: | Previous discussions: | | 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12772925 | | 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20092118 | | 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27049601 | | I hope this comment was one of the good ones. | minimaxir wrote: | If the Hacker News API actually returned comment scores it would | be relatively easy to build an app that surfaces good comments, | ahem. | metadat wrote: | There is also: | | https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments | ggm wrote: | Oscar Wilde and Groucho Marx had phrases for the likely coming | decline in HN comment quality. | labrador wrote: | HN is the least worst internet forum ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-10-27 23:00 UTC)