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But isn’t that what makes HN community great? The community votes what’s best and what should be on front page HN is not blocking content on submission without

by rukshn 6y ago

But isn’t that what makes HN community great? The community votes what’s best and what should be on front page HN is not blocking content on submission without checking For example I have been blocked by Reddit just because I was new to community. Not because I was spamming but posting something legitimate I believe natural selection can bring what’s good to the top and leave the spam behind I know it can be flawed but not as flawed as this

michaelmrose 6y ago
Hacker News is I believe a community of approximately 5 million readers at present and far fewer commenters. https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/the-lonely-work-of-moderating-hacker-news https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th... Dang says "The vast majority of logged-in users don't post and the vast majority of readers don't log in." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9220098 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9220098 While hacker news is perfectly usable without a login reddit is pretty much crud without the ability to login and select subreddits and has a readership over 30x bigger. Meanwhile a given subreddit usually has a much much smaller readership but readers in subreddits with radically different standards may be attracted from time to time by posts that link to another subs posts or by a particular post becoming sufficiently popular. Unlike hacker news these subs also don't have professional moderators paid to maintain their communities. If you don't like how a certain topical sub is run you ought to run your own and manage it how you like and tell us how it went.
michaelmrose 6y ago
In case it isn't clear many communities are much smaller communities than hacker news with a fraction of the moderator hours embedded in a community that is hundreds of times larger than the active hacker news community making the probability of drive by negative contribution by the larger community vastly easier and more likely.

by rukshn 6y ago

michaelmrose 6y ago

Hacker News is I believe a community of approximately 5 million readers at present and far fewer commenters. https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/the-lonely-work-of-moderating-hacker-news https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th... Dang says "The vast majority of logged-in users don't post and the vast majority of readers don't log in." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9220098 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9220098 While hacker news is perfectly usable without a login reddit is pretty much crud without the ability to login and select subreddits and has a readership over 30x bigger. Meanwhile a given subreddit usually has a much much smaller readership but readers in subreddits with radically different standards may be attracted from time to time by posts that link to another subs posts or by a particular post becoming sufficiently popular. Unlike hacker news these subs also don't have professional moderators paid to maintain their communities. If you don't like how a certain topical sub is run you ought to run your own and manage it how you like and tell us how it went.

michaelmrose 6y ago

In case it isn't clear many communities are much smaller communities than hacker news with a fraction of the moderator hours embedded in a community that is hundreds of times larger than the active hacker news community making the probability of drive by negative contribution by the larger community vastly easier and more likely.