I’d have to go back and dig to find the relevant posts, but essentially there is the expectation that Hacker News will self-moderate with a careful eye during s

I’d have to go back and dig to find the relevant posts, but essentially there is the expectation that Hacker News will self-moderate with a careful eye during situations of elevated threat. So, as soon as the military police action in the Ukraine started, you may have noticed a change in the tone of the posts and comments? If not, keep an eye out, in the long run, for rates of change in things like frequency of abusive commentary, frequency of down voting, more “graying out” than normal, If so, that is due to the background pattern of self-moderation that takes place at Hacker News. Edit: worth digging through https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html every now and again, too.