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His heavy-handedness is everywhere on HN. I’m curious if it helps or hurts engagement and return visits.
by 650REDHAIR 4y ago
His heavy-handedness is everywhere on HN. I’m curious if it helps or hurts engagement and return visits.
- hn_throwaway_99 4y agoHN would be a complete shit show without dang. What you call "heavy handedness" is what I call the most appropriate, fair minded guidance to keep threads from turning into flamewars. I've been warned by dang before, and when I was, after I took a minute to cool down from what I was responding to, I realized he was exactly correct. I'd encourage y'all to do the same - the parent's comment that there is "a requirement that we do not speak ill of that monarchy" is a gross, and honestly annoyingly incorrect, mischaracterization of what dang said.
- shadowgovt 4y agoEngagement and return visits aren't the primary goals of this community. Indeed, "As a rule, a community site that becomes popular will decline in quality" (https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html) The site's goal is to encourage deeply interesting content, in terms of both posts and comments.
- tsol 4y agoThere are many places where you can get light moderation and get to say what you want. Reddit comes to mind. HN is different largely because of that moderation; it's a feature not a bug.
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