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That said, it's still biased. Years ago, HN admins/mods marked my account as "low-quality content" so now my comments always quickly fall down to the bottom of
by sdegutis 10y ago
That said, it's still biased. Years ago, HN admins/mods marked my account as "low-quality content" so now my comments always quickly fall down to the bottom of the parent, no matter how many points they have. They admitted it in an email recently, and refused to take it off my account, despite the quality of my comments no longer being trollish. When you have human intervention like this, there's danger if it heavily biasing the entire forum for the worse.
- Retra 10y ago"Better and worse" don't exist without bias.
- Houshalter 10y agoWell moderators are necessary to remove trolls. If your comments really were so trollish they felt the need to do that, I wonder why they didn't just ban you outright.
- sdegutis 10y agoYep, banning would have been an alternative solution. But with the choice they made, it requires more human intervention, both on the shorter term (i.e. policing comments to find trolls and mark their accounts) and the longer term (i.e. policing marked accounts and unmarking them when their comments become consistently high quality), and that's a lot of work, and too subject to flawed bias, which is why it's a flawed choice.