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> Community moderation, in almost every form, should be considered a failed project. There's no such thing as "failed" or "successful" when it comes to communi

> Community moderation, in almost every form, should be considered a failed project. There's no such thing as "failed" or "successful" when it comes to community management. There's "better" and "worse", and it's subjective. Communities are gardens, and the goal of managers/moderators is to try to make it nice for the folks you want to happily grow there. For free speech absolutists and ne'er-do-wells, content moderation under Elon is "better" than it was under Twitter. Advertisers and users are now deciding whether "prison rules social media" is for them. From recent statements by Linda Yaccarino, Elon's assertion that X has lost 90% of its value, and the X-Twitter refugees flooding services like Threads, X appears to be in sharp decline. > Our public digital spaces, as they currently exist, cannot be fixed… Nah. HN is great thanks to thoughtful community management. TikTok is surprisingly not terrible. Threads is great right now, and if that changes I'll leave it too. And I'm on tens of communities on Discord, Slack, and even Basecamp that include thousands of great people.

tail_exchange 3y ago
> Nah. HN is great thanks to thoughtful community management. What attracted me to HN is the great community management. I especially like rules such as "respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says", "don't post shallow dismissals", and that "comments should get more thoughtful and substantive", among others. These good guidelines make comments here so much better than what I usually see on Twitter and Reddit. Whenever I visit those websites, I feel like I got nothing from it other than becoming upset. In contrast, I find that comments here are usually very constructive.
Arrath 3y ago
> There's no such thing as "failed" or "successful" when it comes to community management. There's "better" and "worse", and it's subjective. Communities are gardens, and the goal of managers/moderators is to try to make it nice for the folks you want to happily grow there. Well put! That is my sentiment exactly.

tail_exchange 3y ago

> Nah. HN is great thanks to thoughtful community management. What attracted me to HN is the great community management. I especially like rules such as "respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says", "don't post shallow dismissals", and that "comments should get more thoughtful and substantive", among others. These good guidelines make comments here so much better than what I usually see on Twitter and Reddit. Whenever I visit those websites, I feel like I got nothing from it other than becoming upset. In contrast, I find that comments here are usually very constructive.

Arrath 3y ago

> There's no such thing as "failed" or "successful" when it comes to community management. There's "better" and "worse", and it's subjective. Communities are gardens, and the goal of managers/moderators is to try to make it nice for the folks you want to happily grow there. Well put! That is my sentiment exactly.