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I don't understand how HN's community is distinct from the community on any other social network. This is a public site, and anyone can make an account and post

I don't understand how HN's community is distinct from the community on any other social network. This is a public site, and anyone can make an account and post whatever they want. You do see several attempted spam comments on many posts here, it's just that they rapidly get faded to obscurity.

wkat4242 3y ago
> This is a public site, and anyone can make an account and post whatever they want. You do see several attempted spam comments on many posts here, it's just that they rapidly get faded to obscurity. Yes but in general it will attract the more thoughtful types especially because it doesn't have screaming in your face clickbait headlines and attention-seeking pictures. I think the format helps a lot. And also the policy: HN tends to favour uneditorialised headlines for example. The typical conspiracy theorist and anger adrenaline junkie will find nothing here to feed their desire to hate and even if they come across this site they'll roll their eyes at it and close it. They'll just go to fox news or gab. Even if that stuff wasn't downmodded here it would not incite them enough because it's not in big bold clickbaity headlines :)