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> 100% of Hacker News is moderated by the same people While they seem to do a great job, I think that's a bad thing. Why should one person's opinion on what's
by mkolodny 6y ago
> 100% of Hacker News is moderated by the same people
While they seem to do a great job, I think that's a bad thing.
Why should one person's opinion on what's okay to post matter more than the community's opinion? Isn't the point of voting-based communities like HN and Reddit to give the community power over what should be at the top?
What would happen if these communities were entirely auto-moderated? Software could automatically remove posts that break rules. I wonder whether that would help avoid issues like we're seeing here - where power is concentrated in the hands of the few, and those few have biases that can lead to unjust moderation.
- rimliu 6y agoNarrator: they do not do a great job. And calling dang "they" may be a stretch.