Ask HN: What distinguishes Hacker News culture?

[Austin_Conlon]

[spectramax]

No jokes, shenanigans, memes, etc. except for extremely witty and situational humor. It’s refreshing.

[smt88]

The mods seem to spend an enormous amount of time curating the posts and comments. This is an opinionated mod team, and that's what makes it work.

[gus_massa]

From https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

> The most important principle on HN, though, is to make thoughtful comments. Thoughtful in both senses: civil and substantial.