Comment on Ask HN: Where to have good discussions online?parentComments−toxik3yI find that IRC is chock full of people willing to misinterpret and nitpick ANYTHING about you say, no matter how uncontroversial it is.−austin-cheney3yI find that is generally true of everywhere online, most especially where people are incentivized by voting mechanisms such as Hacker News. IRC is real time dialogue where people are better able to defend themselves without concern for votes.−tomrod3yFolks in Economics and Python channels seems reasonable.If the same C folks are there, agreed.
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I find that IRC is chock full of people willing to misinterpret and nitpick ANYTHING about you say, no matter how uncontroversial it is.
I find that is generally true of everywhere online, most especially where people are incentivized by voting mechanisms such as Hacker News. IRC is real time dialogue where people are better able to defend themselves without concern for votes.
Folks in Economics and Python channels seems reasonable.
If the same C folks are there, agreed.