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IMHO, the deeper aversion is because user-driven moderation goes hand in hand with user-driven ranking. Which is turn makes it harder to non-obviously put your
by ethbr0 4y ago
IMHO, the deeper aversion is because user-driven moderation goes hand in hand with user-driven ranking.
Which is turn makes it harder to non-obviously put your hand on the scales and insert paid content into high visibility feeds.
If TikTok inserts a well-matched piece of paid content into a feed, who would even recognize?
If HN inserts a piece of paid content onto the front page, people tend to notice.
- swayvil 4y agoI'm not seeing the hand-in-hand here. We're looking at 2 different moderation processes. Daddy Voting There is no necessary connection that I can see.
- kelnos 4y agoPerhaps that's how it should be, though? Paid content -- even if I'm required to see it in my feed and can't filter it out -- should be marked as such. HN has something similar to "paid" content: YC alum companies are allowed to post hiring notices that end up on the front page, and decay down the page according to a pre-determined algorithm. They're obvious in that you can't comment or vote on them, but HN does allow them to be hidden. I think that's the right way to do things; if HN allowed YC companies to post on the front page, and made it look like they were regular posts that got organically upvoted, it would reduce my trust in HN. Any social media platform that puts paid content in a feed, while trying to make it look like regular content, would also lose my trust.