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People get banned from here all the time tho and there's plenty of racist garbage that gets posted.
by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
People get banned from here all the time tho and there's plenty of racist garbage that gets posted.
- nstart 10y agoExactly. HN is a very good definition of a community that's maintained a significant standard in good communication by using relatively basic tools and quality community moderation. Twitter could have been this. But they chose to believe that no moderation would be just fine.
- retox 10y agoThe post count here is significantly lower than Twitter. I shudder to think how many moderators it would take to administer Twitter. You might think that the downvote mechanism here helps somewhat, and it does, but on any large community with voting such as Reddit the ability to downvote turns the community into an echo chamber where only the largest group gets a say and any dissenting voice is vanished. I dare say we see the same thing here on HN.