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holy cow, I've never used BSD but HN is one cranky bunch!

• dang 4y ago
  You're right that this thread broke out into hellflames. We've banned the worst offenders and scolded some of the others. I don't think it's representative of HN, though. My take is that it was the old-school pull-no-punches style of some systems-oriented communities showing up on HN without adjusting for the cultural context shift. I could be wrong about that though.
  • pcdoodle 4y ago
    I hope that we don't start demoting visibility to the point that it's nowhere to be found somewhere in the first 10 pages after hitting the front page even if it's bad. It don't feel it represents our users from the fringe. If you're going to demote, don't take it off the main page index for casual browsers. Sometimes the fringe is very correct.
    • dang 4y ago
      HN's practices around this have been well-established for many years. Flamewars tend to get demoted off the front page (mostly by software) while sensational or repetitive stories tend to get demoted by moderators. The current thread spent 9 hours on the front page, which is a lot. It did set off the flamewar detector but it looks like we switched that off. Other than that, moderators didn't touch it.