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In isolation, maybe it doesn’t, but reading through the comment history, the site will be better without these contributions.
by aidos 6y ago
In isolation, maybe it doesn’t, but reading through the comment history, the site will be better without these contributions.
- runawaybottle 6y agoThat’s up to us to decide. I have said some pretty insane things, and I often don’t get downvotes. If we reach scale, HN is doomed in general. Until then, we should pick the organic route. Most people are lurkers, so if they even had something to say, it would be one liners.
- dang 6y agoModeration is part of HN. That's one reason why being "doomed in general" hasn't yet destroyed the site after 10+ years of "reaching scale" (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=stave%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...). Part of what moderators do is ban accounts that break the site guidelines repeatedly, especially when they are respawns of previous accounts that broke the site guidelines repeatedly.