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It's curious that you're posting this on HN, a highly moderated community with strong community guidelines. Much stricter than Flickr's community guidelines. H
by JohnBooty 5y ago
It's curious that you're posting this on HN, a highly moderated community with strong community guidelines. Much stricter than Flickr's community guidelines.
How do you resolve this contradiction? It must be suffocating for you to participate here.
- rjbwork 5y agoHN is pretty liberal in terms of the discussion it allows to take place and the breadth of ideas and viewpoints it allows to propagate. It does tend to have guidelines for tone and rules of engagement, however, and strongly discourages outright flamewars and trolling. But sure, yeah, Nazis can fuck right off, agreed.
- JohnBooty 5y agoHN is pretty liberal in terms of the discussion it allows to take place and the breadth of ideas and viewpoints it allows to propagate It really, really isn't. It's one of the more tightly moderated public communities. I suggest browsing with showdead on to see how much crap gets silently removed from HN by the mods. Offtopic remarks are mercilessly downvoted into oblivion by the community. To be clear, I think the HN mods do a fantastic job. I think HN is one of the clearest examples of why strong and talented moderation is essential for high-quality discussions. Their work goes largely unheralded because they maintain a low profile, in multiple ways.
- rjbwork 5y agoI've had showdead on for years and years at this point. >see how much crap gets silently removed from HN by the mods. Consistent with what I've said. >Offtopic remarks are mercilessly downvoted into oblivion by the community. Consistent with what I've said. This is not a counter argument to allowing a breadth of discussion.
- skoskie 5y agoWhat contradiction? I think you’re reading more into my comment than is there.