On topics where the fraction of HN readership with professional expertise is relatively small, it seems HN infrastructure and culture often isn't able to surface that expertise, to sustain the quality of discussion which exists when the fraction is large.
I wonder if there might be some form of low hanging fruit, like maybe a cultural convention of creating a "professionals" comment tree, where people are expected to apply a stricter-than-usual test of whether they have the expertise to comment? Attempting to create a lump of critical mass professional discussion.
On topics where the fraction of HN readership with professional expertise is relatively small, it seems HN infrastructure and culture often isn't able to surface that expertise, to sustain the quality of discussion which exists when the fraction is large.
I wonder if there might be some form of low hanging fruit, like maybe a cultural convention of creating a "professionals" comment tree, where people are expected to apply a stricter-than-usual test of whether they have the expertise to comment? Attempting to create a lump of critical mass professional discussion.