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You’re right and I’ll refrain in the future. Is there anything being done by HN to curb misinformation? Or is it left up to users to downvote purposeful misinf
by crazydoggers 6y ago
You’re right and I’ll refrain in the future.
Is there anything being done by HN to curb misinformation? Or is it left up to users to downvote purposeful misinformation campaigns by users?
Unfortunately HN is becoming less useful as the same types of tactics which are occurring on Facebook and other social media platform begin to manifest here.
Twitter at least now tags for posts with misleading claims.
https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2020/updating-our-approach-to-misleading-information.html https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2020/updating-...
I do appreciate all the work you do, I’m sure it’s a constant battle. And I definitely regret getting personal.
But please also have some compassion for users that want this to be a place of facts and elevated discussion. When threads are flooded with these comments it gets super frustrating.
I attempt to combat actively misleading information with facts, data, and neutral discussion, and am met with more of the same falsehoods, prejudice without any data or facts to support their assertions. And then I find that some users get swayed by the falsehoods.
In addition there are clearly vote rings, since my most balanced positive contributes with facts that counter false assertions are heavily downvoted, while thin comments posting blatant misleading information often get upvoted.
So I have gotten angry with those posts, and I do regret that.
But please... HN is drastically in need of a better moderation system. It can’t rely on the positive nature of a limited crowd of users any more as it gets more popular.
Again, thanks for all you do. I hope HN rises to the occasion.
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- jki275 6y agoIt's really baffling to see you keep posting as though you are some protector of truth and decency on the internet when you're literally running a shill campaign here, posting literally false information continually, name calling and flamespraying anyone who doesn't agree with you. You simply don't have any moral high ground here.
- dang 6y agoPlease don't pile on. Another commenter breaking the site guidelines doesn't make it ok to break them yourself—on the contrary, that's arguably worse than the original transgression, since it's the cascade of responses that lead to all-out flamewar. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: we've had to warn you about this kind of thing repeatedly in the past, and unfortunately it seems that your recent comments have been breaking the site guidelines frequently, and even egregiously. That will get you banned here. I don't want to ban you, so would you please review the rules and stick to them?
- jki275 6y agoSeriously?
- dang 6y agoSure. Even if someone else posted bad comments or broke the site guidelines, it doesn't make it ok for you to do that. If you don't see how your comments like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26525566 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26525566 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26527596 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26527596 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26532083 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26532083 (and so on) broke the site guidelines, please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html until you do; that page is written to make that obvious.
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