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I find secret forum censorship including up/down vote rigging, post visibility weighting targeting a specific group, and secret shadow banning to be some of the
by jjawssd 10y ago
I find secret forum censorship including up/down vote rigging, post visibility weighting targeting a specific group, and secret shadow banning to be some of the most egregious ethics offenses programmers can commit. It's below bribe-taking on the ethics ladder, because at least one person directly benefits from a bribe.
- kefka 10y agoAre you trying to say something about Hacker News?
- jjawssd 10y agoI believe the administrators and moderators of HN are more ethical than those of other popular social media sites, but of course I don't know how much I don't know about the inner workings of these organizations, so I'm just leaving you with something to think about.
- kefka 10y agoOh, indeed. I've had my own.. disagreements with the people here running the place. One of those very disagreements was what I thought was active targeting was in fact me triggering a spam filter or something. The underlying problem is HN should be more transparent in how people get on "shit lists"- hellbanning, no submit, and other statuses. I tended to like the Kur5hin style model, where every mod is linked to the user, and everyone can see it. Albeit, K5 is dead...
- eeZah7Ux 10y agoInteresting to see how the parent is being downvoted...