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I, for one, hope that HN never becomes this unmoderated hellscape many people seem to want it to be. HN has had moderators from day one. If you want a censorsh
by cmeacham98 5y ago
I, for one, hope that HN never becomes this unmoderated hellscape many people seem to want it to be.
HN has had moderators from day one. If you want a censorship-free forum those do exist - there are places on the internet that do the bare minimum of moderation and only remove illegal content. Unfortunately, only the worst members of society seem to frequent these types of forums, and that isn't a coincidence.
- tpoacher 5y agoI don't know why you consider those two words to be synonyms. If anything, they are opposing concepts. You moderate a discussion exactly to prevent censorship. "Moderation" that results in censorship is censorship, not "moderation".
- approxim8ion 5y ago> You moderate a discussion exactly to prevent censorship. No, you might moderate a discussion to prevent censorship but that is not the definition or even a necessary goal of moderation.
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- bliteben 5y agoThe problem with shadow bans and most moderation is they basically all eventually just make the user's account have no voice at all and its not redeemable. Sure this helps with spam, but on a long enough time frame these types of systems would ban even their best users. In fighting spam and other abuse we take approaches that don't mirror real life at all, even the most rigid humans will forgive.
- TheMonarchist 5y ago> there are places on the internet that do the bare minimum of moderation and only remove illegal content. Unfortunately, only the worst members of society seem to frequent these types of forums Could you link to worst examples? I think that finding these with search engines might be difficult.