Thanks for sharing. Kinda sux, especially for all the work moderators do (and thanks to dang for the hard work on HN!) Free speech is hard. Really hard. All

Thanks for sharing. Kinda sux, especially for all the work moderators do (and thanks to dang for the hard work on HN!) Free speech is hard. Really hard. Allowing communities to express themselves in person (aka pre-internet) was much easier, because there was a cost to appear in person (time, society's perceptions, etc). With the internet, truly anonymous speech has flourished, and much of it really is a waste of time or even damaging. I hope as a society that we will be able to figure out this conundrum without eliminating free speech. I think that just like credit cards accept some bad debts, we have to be able to accept some bad actors in speech - the trick is limiting it without killing free speech. To me, communities like reddit, HN, FB, twitter, etc are all huge experiments in free speech and how to manage that problem. Hopefully it turns out right - I don't want the future to look like East Germany.