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More like: "We detached this subthread which spawned the most interesting discussion in this comment tree because we are addicted to controlling the conversatio
by Kenji 8y ago
More like: "We detached this subthread which spawned the most interesting discussion in this comment tree because we are addicted to controlling the conversation and we want things to conform to our social justice agenda - nothing controversial is allowed here."
Your moderating produces negative value.
- dang 8y agoI'm glad you found it interesting. As you can see, it's still here to be enjoyed. The problem is that generic topics like "do we have free will" frequently balloon into large discussions that crowd out the more specific topic at hand. If we didn't moderate HN this way, HN threads would consist mostly of the same generic discussions repeated over and over. I'm pretty sure the community wouldn't agree that it "produces negative value" to prevent that from happening, even though we don't always make the right calls.