From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 29309 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2023 17:08:49 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 27 Jan 2023 17:08:49 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB36D42545; Sat, 28 Jan 2023 03:08:43 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 52AEC42544 for ; Sat, 28 Jan 2023 03:08:37 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id EB39535E823; Fri, 27 Jan 2023 09:08:36 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 09:08:36 -0800 From: Larry McVoy To: ama@ugr.es Message-ID: <20230127170836.GG5393@mcvoy.com> References: <202301270853.30R8rif6014271@freefriends.org> <7w8rhobb87.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> <20230127160531.GE5393@mcvoy.com> <35180c48b0a162da2a53d8fce1c50a81@ugr.es> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <35180c48b0a162da2a53d8fce1c50a81@ugr.es> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Message-ID-Hash: CCRQKVFYNNDLSPLCZHBP23DNV4N6LCNN X-Message-ID-Hash: CCRQKVFYNNDLSPLCZHBP23DNV4N6LCNN X-MailFrom: lm@mcvoy.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: tuhs@tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: [off-topic] Anyone still using USENET? List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 06:01:03PM +0100, Angel M Alganza wrote: > I find the ratio signal/noise of Reddit far too low to use it as a regular > news source for me. For technical news, there is Hacker News (HN), which in > place of a voting system, has a tipping system which rewards with small > amounts of money the more interesting/useful posts and comments. I left hacker news a few years ago for two reasons: A) the signal noise ratio, as a systems person, is awful. They talk about trivial stuff like it is a big deal. There is very little in the way of interesting stuff there. It all sounds technical until you look into it, it's 98% fluff. B) There is some paid(?) schill there who stomps on anyone saying anything bad about Roundup. Cancer got my dad, he got it from Roundup. Every time I tried point out I had personal data on the topic (and all you have to do is google Roundup and cancer and you get a bizillion law firms who want to represent you), this schill jumped on me. I complained to the admins and they did nothing, so I left. They were getting more out of me than I was getting out of that site so sucks to be them. On the signal/noise on reddit, /r/news is reasonable and not that different than Google news other than it shows up on reddit first.