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>>apsec1+(OP)
>Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That destroys the curiosity this site exists for.

I don't understand how those two sentences are related. I've never heard a political or ideological battle explained as being "curiosity destroying".

>>x86_64+V2
Because whenever there's a battle in the comments, it drowns out all the interesting comments and makes it hard for anyone curious about the subject to see the interesting points of view.

As a quick heuristic, if there are more than 150 comments, there's a high probability that it's descended into either an ideological battle, or an obtuse snark-fest over semantics or edge cases.

>>kstene+j3
This is a technology problem.

It’s a symptom of an imperfect commenting system.

With a better system, just like in real life, I would more easily be able to only pay attention to the things I want to pay attention to.

>>waynef+lO
For better or worse, HN is a non-siloed site (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...), meaning everyone sees the same things and is in one big room together. There are certainly design choices there, but each online community has its initial condition set and its pros and cons that flow from that. I don't think it's a question of perfection. It probably would not be wise to mess with those initial conditions—that would likely cause unintended consequences, so the bar to clear to justify it would have to be very high.

I've written about the pros and cons of the non-siloed format here, if anyone's interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23308098. It leads to a rather paradoxical situation.