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Noted. Funny though that you chastise me after my response to personal attacks but never the rule-breaking personal attacks in the first place. Most of the tim

Noted. Funny though that you chastise me after my response to personal attacks but never the rule-breaking personal attacks in the first place. Most of the time I let the personal attacks slide, but then those threads you seem to never see (because I never see these moderation responses when I do). My responses on the other hand will always be crass enough to get your attention. So in either case I guess I just have to eat shit. Great community that you've got here. I get that you can't be everywhere in every thread, but it sucks.

dang 4y ago
It always feels like the other person started it and did worse. This is a super strong bias which we all seem to have (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=%22always%20feels%22%20by%3Adang&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). We can't allow that feeling to drive commenting here, because it's a recipe for a downward spiral (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=downward%20spiral%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). And of course it's also entirely possible that we didn't moderate some comments that we should have, in a thread where you got scolded instead. I can tell you for sure there's no personal reason for that—it's random. We just don't see everything that gets posted. We do try to see everything that gets flagged, but even that is too much sometimes. The fact that you're using words like "always" and "never" makes me think that the above-mentioned bias is an issue though. That's how it feels. If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is simply that we didn't see it (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=likeliest%20explanation%20by%3Adang&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com.

dang 4y ago

It always feels like the other person started it and did worse. This is a super strong bias which we all seem to have (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=%22always%20feels%22%20by%3Adang&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). We can't allow that feeling to drive commenting here, because it's a recipe for a downward spiral (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=downward%20spiral%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). And of course it's also entirely possible that we didn't moderate some comments that we should have, in a thread where you got scolded instead. I can tell you for sure there's no personal reason for that—it's random. We just don't see everything that gets posted. We do try to see everything that gets flagged, but even that is too much sometimes. The fact that you're using words like "always" and "never" makes me think that the above-mentioned bias is an issue though. That's how it feels. If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is simply that we didn't see it (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=likeliest%20explanation%20by%3Adang&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com.