I actually came here from Hacker News rather than Reddit, for similar reasons. I wasn't banned, but HN does arbitrarily ban people. I left because the culture there is asinine, and unapologetically corporate (they ban people for saying things against YC-funded companies). I really like that Hubski doesn't have downvotes. I feel like a lack of downvotes makes the community much more amiable, and disincentivises trolls. I've largely replaced HN with Lobste.rs and Hubski. Lobsters has more tech news; Hubski has more general news, and an incredible, intelligent community. Seriously, I've never been a part of a community as educated, rational, intelligent, curious, and generally not mean-spirited. You guys are awesome.
I recently left HN as well. I've never seen Lobste.rs and it seems like a really great place for tech news. Thanks for the recommendation!
>I've never been a part of a community as educated, rational, intelligent, curious, and generally not mean-spirited. I see people say this a lot but I get the impression it just means they agree with everything that is said and what is said is usually main-stream liberal ideology.
On the contrary, one of the reasons I'm fond of the community is the rational debates. Hubski is predominantly socially liberal because the educated demographic is statistically socially liberal. It's not, however, predominantly fiscally liberal. There are quite a few fiscal conservatives here. I participate in a number of websites and communities that are socially liberal, but not rational or intelligent. For example, Imgur is socially liberal, probably because they attract the young and international demographics. But I would hardly call the community educated, intelligent, or rational. Nothing against them; it's a great place for visual entertainment, just not intellectual discussion.it just means they agree with everything that is said
usually main-stream liberal ideology
That's debatable, to be honest. Disagreements can occur a lot on Hubski, but they occur calmy, courteously, and I would say with both parties taking something away from it. Slap fights aren't really a thing here, and people usually give thorough, reflective responses to conversations. Unless you mean the sentence you quoted is said about communities in general, in which case this is possibly true.
What do you mean by YC-funded? Haven't heard that abbreviation before.
Y Combinator is an American seed accelerator, started in March 2005. Y Combinator provides seed money, advice, and connections at two three-month programs per year. In exchange, they take an average of about 6% of the company's equity.
They helped launch reddit, DropBox, and Airbnb, and this site is based off of the Hacker News source code.