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Daniel, the truth of the matter is that "you want all the Jews in Israel to die" type of post can, and is being thrown everywhere completely regardless of the m
by baybal2 5y ago
Daniel, the truth of the matter is that "you want all the Jews in Israel to die" type of post can, and is being thrown everywhere completely regardless of the merit of original conversation.
And yes, it's a perfect tactic to sink any topic on a site with any kind of automoderation.
You cannot properly discuss anything moderately controversial if any topic can get framed, and sunk as "flamebait" because moderately controversial topics are "flamebait".
People have heated discussions about matters of ideology, that's the very obvious truth of life.
The more important is the matter, the more, longer, louder, and more emotionally people will argue.
- dang 5y agoThat's an argument for unmoderated flamewar. That's not what HN is. If you're imagining a version of HN that is "like the current HN, but without the current moderation practices," you'll have to forgive me for considering that a fantasy. There's also no evidence that anybody said that as a "discussion sinking" tactic. On the contrary, the simplest explanation easily applies: people responded to flamebait with more flamebait, which cascaded into flamewar. This is one of the most common phenomena that exists here, and one doesn't need sinister constructs to understand it.
- baybal2 5y agoI am not calling for it, what I told is topics turning into flamewar regardless of merits of original conversation, and that any important topic sinks very quickly.