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Why is this an off topic flame war comment but “I’m too tired to write a paragraph but SSRIs kill” is fine? The moderation here rewards engineer’s disease where
by adamwk 4y ago
Why is this an off topic flame war comment but “I’m too tired to write a paragraph but SSRIs kill” is fine? The moderation here rewards engineer’s disease where we first principling our way to warning people to ignore Dr.’s suggestions as long as everyone’s smiling at each other.
It’s like an anti-vax YouTube video where any dissenting opinion is flagged until mods give up and remove it from the front page. It’s the same thing with abortion or anything else that isn’t a Rust article.
- dang 4y agoYes, that was also a bad comment. It wasn't aggressive to other users, though, which is an important difference from a moderation point of view. HN is an internet watercooler. People come here to have casual, curious conversations. That requires being allowed to be wrong, to think out loud, to shoot the shit, to exchange. Imposing some sort of correctness requirement, besides being impossible (how on earth would we enforce such a thing without a truth meter?), would kill conversation and therefore kill the forum. You guys are overgeneralizing based on seeing comments you dislike. I understand (believe me I understand) how frustrating that is, but there are just as many people who agree with you, probably more. The fact that there's a range of views here is normal, inevitable, and fine. HN has always operated on the principle that readers are smart enough to make up their own minds, i.e. to find their way through internet bullshit however they choose to do so. I don't see any reason to change that operating principle.