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Hey Elon, let me help you speedrun the content moderation learning curve
- mikkergp 4y agoLooks like we’re at level 2, had Hollywood called yet?
- credit_guy 4y agoI don't frequent social media aside from Hacker News. But Hacker News is great at moderation. Maybe it's a multiplier effect. Dang does a phenomenal job, and other people see and emulate. Lots of people like to keep this place a civil place. Twitter is a bigger shop. But can something like that work too? I'm not sure Elon is familiar with HN, but if he were, I think it would serve him well to draw some inspiration from it.
- jonfw 4y agoI don’t think this model would work for Twitter at all. HN has a very narrow scope and is moderated appropriately for that scope. HN doesn’t provide users with their own platform- it provides then access to the HN platform (since nobody has their own timeline or followers, we’re just competing for the central “front page”. While I respect Dang when he moderates the HN timeline, I would not be as happy if he moderated my own timeline so aggressively
- credit_guy 4y agoAs I said, I'm not familiar with other platforms, Twitter included. And I take it as a given that when two problems have vastly different scales, a solution for the small problem does not translate trivially to become a solution to the big problem. But it can provide some guidance. What I like about HN is the guidelines [1]. They are a 700-word very thoughtful version of "be nice". Could this work on Twitter? I don't know. I don't even know if Twitter has karma. But I think "be nice" is a good thing to have on any social platform. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- quantified 4y agoEnjoyable, but familiar: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33448038 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33448038]