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I appreciate everything you and the mods do here. Enough so that I feel my past behavior on HN has been less than ideal from time to time and I am incentivized
by 93po 3y ago
I appreciate everything you and the mods do here. Enough so that I feel my past behavior on HN has been less than ideal from time to time and I am incentivized to improve it because I respect what you're trying to do here.
However, the staff at HN are doing themselves a disservice and legitimizing criticism with this sort of action. If you feel this content is grand and speculative then downvote it or flag it like anyone else. If you feel it's actively damaging or strongly against the ethos of HN then delete it or sticky a comment at the top of the discussion to give your position and encourage people to flag/downvote.
The author makes a fair observation and does speculate as part of their writing, but speculation happens all the time on HN.
Reddit can be a moat for OpenAI even if the intention wasn't deliberately made.
- dang 3y agoI appreciate that you're working to improve your contributions to HN! You might be underestimating how much curation/moderation we do of HN's front page. We do a lot. The front page is not generated by votes and flags alone (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=%22upvotes%20alone%22%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...). Upvotes and flags are important but the front page is a complex combination of those plus software action plus moderator action. If we didn't have the latter, HN would basically be impossible. It's a pity—I'd love to manage without moderator action because the latter is tedious and it would be much more fun to write code to do it or just let the upvotes have their way.
- 93po 3y agoFair, thanks for feedback