[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)