> I’m pretty sure HN, the site were literally posting on, does not have either of these, As far as I know, HN does have two full-time employees whose sole job

> I’m pretty sure HN, the site were literally posting on, does not have either of these, As far as I know, HN does have two full-time employees whose sole job is moderation. I believe they also have some automated spam detection involved too. > yet it’s miles better than anything on fb or twitter so I’m not sure I buy this argument. This can be explained almost entirely by the fact that bad actors go where the greatest concentration of good actors is. Small communities are relatively safe with little effort required on their part, because they simply aren't a big enough target to be worth a bad actor's time. For a long time, it was taken for granted that "Mac didn't have viruses". It wasn't because Mac OS was somehow more virus-proof than Windows. It was simply that Mac was like 2% of the marketshare and thus just not a worthwhile platform for hackers to target.