"It’s pretty clear now that the broken windows theory applies to community sites as well. The theory is that minor forms of bad behavior encourage worse ones: t

"It’s pretty clear now that the broken windows theory applies to community sites as well. The theory is that minor forms of bad behavior encourage worse ones: that a neighborhood with lots of graffiti and broken windows becomes one where robberies occur. I was living in New York when Giuliani introduced the reforms that made the broken windows theory famous, and the transformation was miraculous. And I was a Reddit user when the opposite happened there, and the transformation was equally dramatic." Paul Graham is such a tool. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24099192 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24099192 Somebody should delete this dumpster fire of a website, perhaps a real "hacker" might take the initiative some day!