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Honestly there are a few bad apples that show up around here, but I think that's just a reflection of our industry as a whole. If you have open signup and light
by smcl 4y ago
Honestly there are a few bad apples that show up around here, but I think that's just a reflection of our industry as a whole. If you have open signup and light-ish touch moderation, you're bound to end up with whatever HN is.
I see "the orange site" phrase used a lot over at lobste.rs, and they obviously followed a different path - you need to be invited or somehow known to get on board. So they've got less of what they think of as toxicity and everyone's supposed to be pals with each other. Except little conflicts and tantrums do happen every now and then, and there's less activity overall (current top story has 26 comments on it, 10 of the 25 stories on the front page have no comments at all).
- formerly_proven 4y agoInvite-only selects for the other kind of insanity, the 1% who are actively engaged with sites, instead of the ~99% who mostly lurk.
- karma_fountain 4y agoYou don't have to be invited to lurk though? I guess you mean you don't get the folks who just sign up to post a one-off or once in a while comment?
- MBCook 4y agoFor me it’s a lot more than a few bad apples. It’s the general state of discourse and empathy from a reasonably large chunk of the user base. HN was never perfect (since I found it), but it’s much worse now. To be fair this has happened in general to a number of sites/thing in the exact same timeline. It’s not an HN specific problem, other than the degree to which such people may be attracted to the usual HN spheres.