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As an academic experiment, one could post a message here on HN and on Usenet to see how the interaction plays out on each platform. On Usenet, people can not v
by LinuxBender 5y ago
As an academic experiment, one could post a message here on HN and on Usenet to see how the interaction plays out on each platform. On Usenet, people can not vote or moderate your message. Messages are only removed from Usenet relays if they violate law for the most part. Anyone can reply if interested in doing so, with any text or content. Has anyone done this experiment recently?
- denton-scratch 5y agoOn Usenet, you can moderate your own incoming messages. Assuming you have a suitable newsreader (I know of none that are not suitable for use with killfiles).
- LinuxBender 5y agoOpt-In self moderation is great. You can even do that here on HN with add-ons like uBlock. From My Filters ycombinator.com##.itemlist > tbody > tr.athing:has-text(political) ycombinator.com##.itemlist > tbody > tr.athing:has-text(political)+tr ycombinator.com##.itemlist > tbody > tr.athing:has-text(political)+tr+tr More examples [0] and there are a few other incantations of this. [0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22781635 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22781635
- underseacables 5y agoFilters would be fantastic. I would love very much to be able to filter out specific words and phrases from my HN view.
- LinuxBender 5y agoA simpler add-on for words and phrases is FoxReplace. [1] [1] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxreplace/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxreplace/