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Ah, but comments on well moderated news aggregators is a different story altogether than sites that just happen to have comment forms.

• darkerside 6y ago
  Yes, that's right. We're different. It's everyone else that's the problem. /s
  • unethical_ban 6y ago
    Yes. Unironically. Without the s. Seriously. Very few news orgs devote the resources needed to curate messages for relevance and filter trolls and flames. Furthermore, places want to make money on subscribers so potentially have an incentive not to remove postsade by subscribers (no substance behind that theory). Nytimes is the only news site I see that doesn't have absolute trash for dialogue quality.
    • monoideism 6y ago
      > Nytimes is the only news site I see that doesn't have absolute trash for dialogue quality. Oh, it has plenty of trash comments, they're just expressed in a manner acceptable to the urban elite. All the comments from hoi polloi are filtered.
      • unethical_ban 6y ago
        >all the comments I disagree with are expressed with cogency and respect, and those that show disrespect or a lack of RTFA are deleted
    • darkerside 6y ago
      Credit to the mods here. They have a vision for a culture, and they've done a good job at it. It doesn't mean it's the only way to have a conversation. I recognize this sentiment is going to be unpopular here. There are probably other places that would feel the opposite, that HN is a groupthink SV bubble with any diversity just a riff on that theme. I like it here, but I swear some people here think they have a monopoly on truth.