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I think this site has some built-in flame resistance because many of us are trying to facilitate a y-combinator application at some point in the future. As far

I think this site has some built-in flame resistance because many of us are trying to facilitate a y-combinator application at some point in the future. As far as improvements go, I think the lack of private messages hurts the sense of community, because communication is always one-to-many (which is much less personal than one-on-one). The disemvoweling technique mentioned in the article was pretty unique, but I think the desirable goal is to train the users (us) to stop rewarding hostile posts with karma. That leads to strong disincentives to negative posts, without resorting to any micromanagement.

davidw 19y ago
"I think this site has some built-in flame resistance because many of us are trying to facilitate a y-combinator application at some point in the future." Yes, but it's also likely that that curve might be linear, and the total number either "hyper linear" or a steeper linear.
nostrademons 19y ago
Trolls typically reject the value system of the host site, so they aren't deterred by negative karma. It's just a number, why care about it? I think Reddit's system works reasonably well: enough downmods and the post is simply hidden. Trolls do care about attention; if they don't get it, they (usually) stop wasting their time.