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Did you know that Hacker News frequently prevents users from commenting for several hours if they receive multiple downvotes in a short timespan? You go to resp

Did you know that Hacker News frequently prevents users from commenting for several hours if they receive multiple downvotes in a short timespan? You go to respond to someone attacking you, write a long response and.. nope, you've posted too many times.

wruza 5y ago
respond to someone attacking you A common mistake on a forum, that’s how you feed them for more and for everyone to deal with it. HN also rate-limits hot/deep discussions for them to not grow quickly, by removing the reply link for few minutes. If someone misbehaved, it is wise to remain silent and trust the crowd.
- encryptluks2 5y ago
  For an IT crowd I would think other methods would be used to prevent spam/bots, not actively promoting for censoring organic discussions (because a crowd says so).
  - 1_player 5y ago
    In my experience, it works beautifully on HN. It's not censoring, it's giving everyone a timeout and a chance to walk away from the keyboard.
    - encryptluks2 5y ago
      Censorship... Such a beautiful thing, gives people time to think about life. Seriously, this is some 1984 BS. Also, if they are going to prevent you from posting it should say so before you start typing not when you go to submit.
      - 1_player 5y ago
        To be fair, I've never had my comments censored in any way. I sometimes get the "you're posting too quick" message because I did upvote a couple comments in the previous few seconds, but trying again after a minute works for me. So I honestly haven't seen any automated censorship system you're talking about in my 11 years on this site.
        encryptluks2 5y ago
        Fair enough, however when I get the "you're posting too quick" message it can take upwards of 3 hours before I can post again... so I just stop trying and end up losing whatever response I composed beforehand.
  - krapp 5y ago
    Hacker News is about preserving its culture and maintaining a high signal to noise ratio, as well as avoiding the Eternal September effect. It isn't a space for free organic discussion, it's a space for curated, thought provoking discussion. Conversation here is steered and controlled aggressively on multiple levels in the name of quality control, including making it purposely easy for the crowd to censor anything they want, for any reason. Think of it less as your local pub and more the water cooler at work, except HR posted a lengthy policy about water cooler conversations on the wall, which seems to get longer every week, and the boss is always glancing out of his office, and everything you say around that water cooler goes into your performance review. Also sometimes you'll find the water doesn't dispense but only for you, because apparently that's dependent upon a metric you weren't aware of and at some point you fell under the threshold and were never told but from now on you just have to stand there holding your empty cup like a shmuck. I don't know what the "pub" equivalent of HN is. I don't think it exists and if it does it's probably already infested with incels and edgelord tools.

wruza 5y ago

respond to someone attacking you A common mistake on a forum, that’s how you feed them for more and for everyone to deal with it. HN also rate-limits hot/deep discussions for them to not grow quickly, by removing the reply link for few minutes. If someone misbehaved, it is wise to remain silent and trust the crowd.

encryptluks2 5y ago
For an IT crowd I would think other methods would be used to prevent spam/bots, not actively promoting for censoring organic discussions (because a crowd says so).
- 1_player 5y ago
  In my experience, it works beautifully on HN. It's not censoring, it's giving everyone a timeout and a chance to walk away from the keyboard.
  - encryptluks2 5y ago
    Censorship... Such a beautiful thing, gives people time to think about life. Seriously, this is some 1984 BS. Also, if they are going to prevent you from posting it should say so before you start typing not when you go to submit.
    - 1_player 5y ago
      To be fair, I've never had my comments censored in any way. I sometimes get the "you're posting too quick" message because I did upvote a couple comments in the previous few seconds, but trying again after a minute works for me. So I honestly haven't seen any automated censorship system you're talking about in my 11 years on this site.
      - encryptluks2 5y ago
        Fair enough, however when I get the "you're posting too quick" message it can take upwards of 3 hours before I can post again... so I just stop trying and end up losing whatever response I composed beforehand.
- krapp 5y ago
  Hacker News is about preserving its culture and maintaining a high signal to noise ratio, as well as avoiding the Eternal September effect. It isn't a space for free organic discussion, it's a space for curated, thought provoking discussion. Conversation here is steered and controlled aggressively on multiple levels in the name of quality control, including making it purposely easy for the crowd to censor anything they want, for any reason. Think of it less as your local pub and more the water cooler at work, except HR posted a lengthy policy about water cooler conversations on the wall, which seems to get longer every week, and the boss is always glancing out of his office, and everything you say around that water cooler goes into your performance review. Also sometimes you'll find the water doesn't dispense but only for you, because apparently that's dependent upon a metric you weren't aware of and at some point you fell under the threshold and were never told but from now on you just have to stand there holding your empty cup like a shmuck. I don't know what the "pub" equivalent of HN is. I don't think it exists and if it does it's probably already infested with incels and edgelord tools.