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How does HN deal with it? HN has user-generated content, after all, and it isn't (yet) overrun with bots. On HN, users downvote and flag junk content. dang s
by AnimalMuppet 3y ago
How does HN deal with it? HN has user-generated content, after all, and it isn't (yet) overrun with bots.
On HN, users downvote and flag junk content. dang shadowbans junk accounts. (I don't know how much of dang's bandwidth this takes up, but it could become a problem. dang does not scale.)
- _heimdall 3y agoHN doesn't really have an incentive model for not content. Personally I don't see down votes or flags as a not protection, they're meant to help patrol against low quality content or content that breaks moderation rules. Overloading it for bots may work for a while, but only for as long as not content is recognizable and/or bad quality. How would we know to flag not content when it looks just like a real person may have written it? And how do we know quality content isn't already being written by bots?