Jokes aside or may be this is a place to joke.<p>What is so addictive about HN? Can we say that litterally browsin HN is like scrolling through FB feed? Ornis there a difference.<p>What was the mosy funny situation when instead of doing something you just kept on reading HN?<p>Asking this just because I am newbie here :)
I guess newbies don't read the FAQ and look at the types of posts inherent to the site before posting anymore. You'll be hard pressed to find giggly "Let's make this fun!!!" posts here (thankfully).<p>Jokes aside - I'm really not that much of a grump, and I appreciate that you did start the title with Ask HN:, so there's no expectation of the question itself being particularly informative. So I'll bite and try to provide an informative response:<p>What is addictive to me is that HN posts don't tend to devolve into nonsense, and you can learn something from people who expand on the topic at hand without hitting the dead ends that cynicism and lack of general etiquette from random bad actors derailing otherwise perfectly good and interesting threads tend to cause.<p>Your comparison with FB threads needs a re-think. I read the comment section in HN, but not FB, not Reddit, not CNN, definitely not Fox, etc., for exactly that reason. It's refreshing to see intelligent conversation that isn't polluted and killed off with goofiness or pseudo-anonymous one-upmanship. When I want that, I just go to Twitter (which I do). Twitter has "twit" in the name for a reason. Tell all the jokes and get it out of your system there. There is no written or unwritten law that says the entire Internet has to be memes and silliness.<p>Hacker News is awesome and different because it is News for Hackers. Right there in the name, and accentuated by the lack of all the trappings one typically finds at a goofy-positive posting site.