Most content moderated by most sites isn't strictly illegal. On Hacker News you can be modded down for being impolite, or insufficiently substantive, for mere d

Most content moderated by most sites isn't strictly illegal. On Hacker News you can be modded down for being impolite, or insufficiently substantive, for mere disagreement, for being repetitive or any number of reasons including "just because," since there are no real guidelines for voting here, and people tend to use flagging as a "super downvote" rather than for content that just violates the ever increasing list of guidelines. The number of sites that limit moderation to strictly illegal material are few and far between, and they tend to degenerate into cesspools where only the worst elements prefer to gather. Even Gab recently learned this lesson[0,1]. [0] https://news.gab.com/2024/03/were-cleaning-up-gab-and-its-long-overdue/ https://news.gab.com/2024/03/were-cleaning-up-gab-and-its-lo... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39686704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39686704