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These results are a bit scary. For the U.S. election category, the only comment in the "least toxic" set that really took a stand on anything said: "Too much me
by jdavis703 9y ago
These results are a bit scary. For the U.S. election category, the only comment in the "least toxic" set that really took a stand on anything said: "Too much media influence." All the other comments were either meta-comments or along the lines of let's all hold hands and sing kumbaya.
I agree we need to weed out toxic comments, but human-moderated systems are the best. Hacker News has some of the best discussions that I read online. Even when I vehemently disagree with someone's point it's still worded in a respectful tone.
- the8472 9y ago> I agree we need to weed out toxic comments Do we really? Isn't collapsing, filtering, voting enough? Especially once you have a "I don't want to see any posts by this user" function a reader can quickly purge anything that they don't want to read. Add aggregation ("hide things that person X who shares my views has hidden") if needed. Empower people to make individual decisions instead of enforcing things on the platform level.
- jdavis703 9y agoThere's some comments that add literally no value. I've received comment replies on other sites saying things along the lines of "I want to kill you." At that point we're past freedom of speech, this is almost the equivalent of yelling "fire" in a crowded theater.