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The fact that this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33674562 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33674562) survived for as long as it did despite w
by eganist 4y ago
The fact that this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33674562 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33674562) survived for as long as it did despite wildly transphobic "automatic responses" (nitwit005's words, well put) tells me that we're probably on that downhill trend. I remember (vaguely) a particular automatic control existing to mitigate low-quality discussion by simply demoting threads with heavy flag/unflag trends from the front page, and here we have an example of a thread linking to a pretty inflammatory blog post that managed to stay on the front page for hours despite being littered with comments that were flagged/unflagged repeatedly. Even now it's #50, seven hours later.
Just with that single case study of a topic, yeah there's a downhill trend to be noted.
Edit: oh hey, the flagging actually worked this time. lol
- leereeves 4y agoIs this what the OP meant by "conspiracy comments"? Simply opinions that differ from yours? Or controversial content in general? That's not the definition of "conspiracy" I'm familiar with. Perhaps OP could provide some examples of the conspiracy comments they're referring to.
- eganist 4y agoNo, you're right, I was referring to the superset (controversial threads that invite emotionally satisfying but uninspiring conversation), of which conspiracies would be a subset.