A couple things: - Censorship is okay. Having a high bar for censorship is what places like HN are founded on. Setting guidelines is a good course of action fo

A couple things: - Censorship is okay. Having a high bar for censorship is what places like HN are founded on. Setting guidelines is a good course of action for that. This is opposed to a code of conduct, which is essentially a pseudo-legal system that assuages some idea of fairness, which you'll frankly never have in social. - Given the name ZSync it seems like you want to attract techies. I don't think ML or any algorithm which cannot be sufficiently explained is going to work well. - Tags are not a substitute for subreddits; there's hard separation in a subreddit whereas tags are pretty fluid and usually a filterable option. - There are so many zsyncs: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=zsync https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=zsync and I don't even get what it's syncing. > HN still has the highest discussion quality of any "forum" I know of, but (1) it can sometimes randomly be very hostile/toxic to new tech, the most glaring example being crypto. HN was pretty amenable to crypto when it came about. Over time things soured. I think when things crossed the line here is probably when people started openly advocating removing code hosting for even basic non-grift crypto tech and then were seen advocating for AI ~1.5 months later. I don't think you can pick and choose what future weird attitudes your users will adopt. > HN is basically a single subreddit mostly geared towards tech and startups. It'd be nice to have an equivalent of "subreddits". HN is geared towards curiosity technically. The community may select for more than that via the flag and voting system; the selection bias will also change as HN gains more users of more diverse backgrounds and as people age into new careers/life. In the short time I've been here I've seen many HNs. Overall, I applaud the initiative.