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That's hilariously Orwellian. I mean, I mostly like the mod atmosphere here. But removing user privileges, not for posting bad comments, but for silently and se
by PhasmaFelis 7y ago
That's hilariously Orwellian. I mean, I mostly like the mod atmosphere here. But removing user privileges, not for posting bad comments, but for silently and secretly suggesting that you reconsider some specific bad comments?
It's honestly confusing that you're telling us this at all.
- detaro 7y agoIt's not (just) a "secret suggestion", it automatically makes stuff visible again (with probably some ranking involved behind the scenes). And it's been announced from the beginning as something that'll be turned off for users that keep using it on comments the mods rather would them not do so.
- PhasmaFelis 7y agoI've been a regular HN user for six years and this is the first I've ever heard of it, so "announced" may be a bit of a strong term.
- detaro 7y agoAnnounced as in "it was described as such in the blog post that announced the Vouch feature": https://blog.ycombinator.com/two-hn-announcements/ https://blog.ycombinator.com/two-hn-announcements/ That's of course not to say that it's widely known, many details of HN are not well-documented, only mentioned occasionally.
- PhasmaFelis 7y agoExactly. It shouldn't be this hard to learn about all the features of the HN commenting system, especially given how minimalist it is.