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I hate to be callous, but I don't see a problem. HN is not the US government. We don't tolerate all forms of speech here. Most of us have come here over the p
by iamelgringo 17y ago
I hate to be callous, but I don't see a problem. HN is not the US government. We don't tolerate all forms of speech here. Most of us have come here over the past few years because of the high signal::noise ratio and the high level of discourse. If you don't like decisions that the mods make, then by all means, please go some place else.
I much prefer that users who don't not make positive contributions to the community be quietly removed. Enough people complain about the degradation in quality of HN. I'm hopeful that things will improve, however and if it takes loosing a couple of users that harm the community by diluting the comment stream, then I'm okay with that.
I say let the culling continue.
- Dellort 17y agoBanning is just a natural concept that carries directly over from real life situations and social interactions. If there is some person in in a group of people that is not generally liked, the natural reaction at some time is to beat the crap out of him; This cannot be done yet on the Internet so we must make do with just excluding him. Unfortunate, but this is just how it is.
- new_account 17y ago>> I say let the culling continue. I hope you are next.
- ramchip 17y agoI think you seriously misread my post. I am not asking to tolerate all forms of speech (and I am not American), to contest mod decisions, or to stop culling users. I am saying that letting people post invisibly makes them waste their time and is a bit cruel. Putting at least a warning somewhere would be common courtesy.