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It's only under control, I think, because it's very specific in terms of content. The weakness many social networks have is that it's basically an open platform
by proc0 6y ago
It's only under control, I think, because it's very specific in terms of content. The weakness many social networks have is that it's basically an open platform for any discussion, and that makes it harder to put boundaries around. It makes sense to heavily restrict subject matters on sites with specialized content but general social networks are still facing the issues mentioned in the article, IMHO.
- dang 6y agoI agree that being specific about content makes things easier, but HN is not so specific. Anything intellectually interesting is on topic (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), and that makes for a lot of long, difficult explanations - e.g.: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=political%20overlap%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
- proc0 6y agoSure, maybe it's not that constrained, but consider something like memes, which is expected of many sites, but definitely not here.
- intended 6y agoGreater institutions have fallen; thats when we got the term Eternal September. It just takes the right influx of users to overcome the human moderators.
- Guest19023892 6y agoI think when the content becomes too broad then tribalism becomes more apparent as people start to form separate groups within the community. This creates a lot of drama as the tribes are forced to be under one roof. When the content is more specific, like PC master race, or people that drive VW bugs, then the community identifies itself as a single tribe, and they tend to treat each other well.