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That a small minority of people with exceptionally high karma can kill posts and threads that they dislike for ideological reasons.
by yasp 8y ago
That a small minority of people with exceptionally high karma can kill posts and threads that they dislike for ideological reasons.
- dang 8y agoThe only ability users have to kill posts comes from flagging, which is something everyone over a low (> 30) karma threshold can do. It also requires quite a few flags to kill a post.
- yasp 8y agoIn my experience, when certain users with sufficiently high karma flag a post or comment thread it is tantamount to "killing" it. Perhaps I'm mistaken in my perception of how flags work here. This is one of the more opaque aspects of how the site works.
- dang 8y agoThat can't be your experience, because it doesn't happen; there's literally nothing in the software that works that way. How it does work isn't much more complicated than what I just said.
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- sdinsn 8y agoWhat about that a small minority of people (moderators, like you) can kill posts and threads that they dislike for ideological reasons?
- dang 8y agoWe don't kill posts for ideological reasons, though ideologically passionate readers sometimes feel that we do.
- kazinator 8y agoYou may not be killing posts due to picking sides within the debates, but the vision of how HN should be is a kind of ideology, and steering it toward that form is enforcement of that ideology.
- dang 8y agoThat's a pretty nuanced academic point compared to "HN is run by right-wing groupthink" or "HN is run by SJWs", which is the level I'm talking about. The answer to both of those is no.