Personally, I find the average quality of discussion on Hacker News to be much higher than the average quality of discussion on Twitter. There are fewer incentives for flame wars, and fewer bots trying to get me to buy random T-shirts.
A lot of that can definitely be chalked up to the excellent moderation by dang! It's the last real place on the internet for me, a line saloon in the wild west if you will.
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Personally, I find the average quality of discussion on Hacker News to be much higher than the average quality of discussion on Twitter. There are fewer incentives for flame wars, and fewer bots trying to get me to buy random T-shirts.
A lot of that can definitely be chalked up to the excellent moderation by dang! It's the last real place on the internet for me, a line saloon in the wild west if you will.
I don't disagree, I just wonder if you (and myself) should spend as much time as we do on this site :)