<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>idiotsecant</author><text>Reddit is a really, really, really good system for connecting people who have a niche interest. You can still do forums and so forth for those things, but discoverability isn&amp;#x27;t nearly as good. It&amp;#x27;s been co-opted by venture capital and is becoming less so, but right now it&amp;#x27;s a great community unmatched elsewhere on the internet in it&amp;#x27;s scale and quality.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hello_moto</author><text>You don&amp;#x27;t interact. Let them die slowly.&lt;p&gt;Reddit interaction is meaningless echo chamber anyway.&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s the point to get your &amp;quot;2c&amp;quot; heard in Reddit? Redditors are the minorities.</text></item><item><author>EMCymatics</author><text>It is impossible to interact in some subreddits if you dont have xyz karma or have a # weeks old account</text></item><item><author>brunoqc</author><text>How on earth are you able to live without your reddit karma? I mean, I don&amp;#x27;t own a house or have a family, but at least I have 475 reddit points.</text></item><item><author>ezekg</author><text>Personally, I wiped all of my personal Reddit accounts last year. I now use short-lived anonymous accounts which I also wipe after awhile. I use Shreddit [^0] to wipe the account before deleting it. I do wish that I was able to backup some valuable conversations, but I honestly wouldn&amp;#x27;t find much worth in the backups without the additional context. So perhaps something to explore -- also storing the context of a particular comment with a configurable depth.&lt;p&gt;[^0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;x89&amp;#x2F;Shreddit&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;x89&amp;#x2F;Shreddit&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Archive your Reddit data before it&apos;s too late</title><url>https://xavd.id/blog/post/archive-your-reddit-data/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jmondi</author><text>Curious why you are contributing here?&lt;p&gt;Arguably, Hacker News is a lot of an echo chamber too.&lt;p&gt;What’s the point to get your “2c” heard on Hacker News? Hacker News users are even more of a minority than Redditors.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hello_moto</author><text>You don&amp;#x27;t interact. Let them die slowly.&lt;p&gt;Reddit interaction is meaningless echo chamber anyway.&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s the point to get your &amp;quot;2c&amp;quot; heard in Reddit? Redditors are the minorities.</text></item><item><author>EMCymatics</author><text>It is impossible to interact in some subreddits if you dont have xyz karma or have a # weeks old account</text></item><item><author>brunoqc</author><text>How on earth are you able to live without your reddit karma? I mean, I don&amp;#x27;t own a house or have a family, but at least I have 475 reddit points.</text></item><item><author>ezekg</author><text>Personally, I wiped all of my personal Reddit accounts last year. I now use short-lived anonymous accounts which I also wipe after awhile. I use Shreddit [^0] to wipe the account before deleting it. I do wish that I was able to backup some valuable conversations, but I honestly wouldn&amp;#x27;t find much worth in the backups without the additional context. So perhaps something to explore -- also storing the context of a particular comment with a configurable depth.&lt;p&gt;[^0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;x89&amp;#x2F;Shreddit&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;x89&amp;#x2F;Shreddit&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Archive your Reddit data before it&apos;s too late</title><url>https://xavd.id/blog/post/archive-your-reddit-data/</url></story>