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I fear you might be right. But somehow, HN is a counter-example? I rarely even see a bad joke, because we’re a self-selected sample of people who care about th
by b33j0r 3y ago
I fear you might be right. But somehow, HN is a counter-example?
I rarely even see a bad joke, because we’re a self-selected sample of people who care about the edges of professional computing.
So I say, why not?
- skrause 3y agoHN has a lot more powerful and strict moderation than Usenet ever had.
- BSEdlMMldESB 3y agoHN has shadowbanning, sockpuppets, etc... all the goodies that have been privately demonstrated to work, and work well; and most of those work even better when combined with a pretense of 'not having that here'
- Hyolobrika 3y agoThat is disgusting.
- cmpalmer52 3y agoThe average person has no idea what 90% of the headlines on HN are even referring to, giving it a degree of self-moderation.
- _x14i 3y agoAnd the average person also doesn't know the website exists. You have a few layers of public knowledge: Twitter, Facebook, etc - everyone knows them. Reddit, Discord HN, presumably other domain-specific forums, IRC Fediverse (though less so as of late), lobste.rs, presumably many that I don't know about!
- dylan604 3y ago>And the average person also doesn't know the website exists. Taking the larger number of people outside of the US that only use mobile devices and only use apps like FB, WhatsApp, or others I'm not familiar with, I'd go so far as saying that the average person doesn't know websites exist. If it's not present to them via an app, could they find an actual website (or at least would they even attempt to)?
- sumedh 3y agoHow do I get an invite to lobste.rs
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- joezydeco 3y agoIMO the key adavantage HN/Reddit has over Usenet is the upvoting/downvoting, which is a clever form of self-moderation. Doesn't work in all cases but the less useful comments and posts never rise to the top.