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I don't know who you are and have no connection with HN other than as an ordinary user, so maybe my unbiased view will be of some interest to you. Your comment
by leephillips 9y ago
I don't know who you are and have no connection with HN other than as an ordinary user, so maybe my unbiased view will be of some interest to you. Your comment convinces me that the HN staff are doing exactly the right thing and that your expectations are unreasonable. If Slashdot had found a way to detect and penalize people who were upvoting fluff, it would be far more useful today. Obviously the HN approach offends you, but they have succeeded in maintaining a quality general discussion forum over time, an accomplishment that seems to have eluded almost any other group that has tried.
- cuckcuckspruce 9y ago>If Slashdot had found a way to detect and penalize people who were upvoting fluff, it would be far more useful today. I thought their metamoderation system was great. The issue with Slashdot is that you had to be one of the chosen few with mod points that day to contribute to moderation.
- leephillips 9y agoIt seems like a good idea, but the results just were not very good.
- ThrowAwayFSp 9y agoSo you have no problem providing subservience when asked by a bureaucrat? It's really really hard to avoid moderators to turn into little desk despots with the passage of time. I don't have the answer, save getting really emphatic and patient persons to manage this cases. They should have given him a 2nd chance after explaining the reasons behind the first penalization, instead of that, they required subservience.