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From all publicly available evidence, Lobste.rs founding had absolutely nothing to do with HN being an “astroturf forum” in 2012, rather the opposite. Strong mo
by readarticle 6y ago
From all publicly available evidence, Lobste.rs founding had absolutely nothing to do with HN being an “astroturf forum” in 2012, rather the opposite. Strong moderation lacking in communication seems to have been the primary driver, with the creator being shadow banned and ghosted by the HN mods which basically meant Paul Graham at the time.
https://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker_news/ https://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker...
https://lobste.rs/about https://lobste.rs/about
- kabacha 6y ago> Lobste.rs founding had absolutely nothing to do with HN being an “astroturf forum” It absolutely had everything to do with it. That's the reason lobste.rs is invite only forum. They had a rather big drama there recently as astroturfer still snuck in even through invite only system resulting in increasing of account restrictions on posting etc. Personally I think their limits are a bit too strict though when you browse hacker news almost every day you can see how that's necessary.
- readarticle 6y agoIs that also the reason they launched with a public mod log, tags, and downvote explanations? The presence of a trivially bypassed invite tree completely invalidates the public, historical reasoning behind the founding from the founder themself in 2012? Feel free to open those links I posted before replying.