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Exactly. 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
by nstart 10y ago
Exactly. 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.