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I would be happy if the New York Times was banned from this site. An awful lot of low quality and off topic content from there seems to constantly make it to th

• gerbilly 7y ago
  > An awful lot of low quality and off topic content from there seems to constantly make it to the front page here. It makes it to the front page because people vote it up. This makes it de facto on-topic.
  • nullc 7y ago
    HN moderation frequently removes things that people upvote-- including some of the most upvoted subjects (they're upvoted a lot because they're divisive political stuff). I think this is good, FWIW. I just don't think it's useful to argue that it shouldn't be removed just because it's upvoted because that's clearly not how HN is run.
    • hombre_fatal 7y ago
      That's a separate issue than what's happening in this thread: someone accusing upvoted content of being off-topic. afaict, HN mods generally remove submissions because their comments are a dumpster fire. Though I haven't witnessed it in a while. The last dumpster fire comment section I saw, dang just stickied his comment to try to encourage people to get back on the topic of the article and avoid the obvious knee-jerk response to it.
• gho77 7y ago
  Individual contributor seeks change in group behavior to more closely appease contributors individual preference. Such high quality discourse