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Don't like it? Send an email to hn@ycombinator.com "Tone" policing on HN is getting a bit ridiculous.

• throwanem 10y ago
  God forfend anyone should try to maintain a quality of discourse that encourages thoughtful people to stick around.
  • npiazza83 10y ago
    Its a difficult distinction to make. I don't think it unreasonable to expect some nuance on the part of moderators. My personal suggestion would be to remove subjective comments more readily in threads related to highly technical topics where there is MUCH to discuss related to the science or engineering of the piece but show some discretion in threads regarding topics which are inherently political or more subjective. So, here, I would actually say moderation is warranted. But if this were a piece on Edward Snowden, perhaps less demand for utter tact. "Only in an irrational and unknown direction can we come to wisdom again."
    • throwanem 10y ago
      The HN moderation staff has a difficult job which they do exceedingly well, and in a thoroughly nuanced fashion. Were this otherwise, discourse here would differ little in quality from what, for example, Reddit provides in such abundance. I appreciate you feel strongly that you can tell HN's moderators how to do their jobs even better. Consider the possibility that this may not be the case.
  • hyperbovine 10y ago
    The thing about thoughtful people is that they dislike being told what to think.
    • throwanem 10y ago
      One might expect they also recognize the difference between being told what to think, and not being told what to think.
      • hyperbovine 10y ago
        I'm lost.
        • throwanem 10y ago
          I kind of am too. I mean, it sounded as though you were likening someone saying "please don't be rude" to someone telling someone else what to think, but that doesn't even make sense, so...
• anchpop 10y ago
  I think you may have replied to the wrong comment