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For anyone who wonders why HN mods are overly strict, then note that Kuro5hin tolerated trolls and they utterly destroyed the site. It doesn't exist any more.

• dredmorbius 9y ago
  It had limped along until a year or so back when the server finally fell over. The domain is parked now. But yeah, the trolls pretty much ruined it, life lesson. Rusty turned up running a Mastodon instance, though I haven't seen him for a few months.
  • wowtip 9y ago
    The change in direction of content of kuro5hin, is that the trolls you refer to? I just visited sporadically and noticed focus drifted from tech related and interesting to political and sometimes into conspiracy theory areas around the time when I stopped visiting.
    • dredmorbius 9y ago
      Not OP, but that was a significant part of it, yes. Both the quality / topic of posts, and of discussion, faded quickly.
• jiggunjer 9y ago
  Same happened to usenet. Too much noise.