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I 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 wit
by jonfw 4y ago
I 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