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Re: the text up top, HN is already pretty much a mono-culture. If you dissent your comments are voted down. I'm sure its possible to have more moderation and to
by chmorgan_ 2y ago
Re: the text up top, HN is already pretty much a mono-culture. If you dissent your comments are voted down. I'm sure its possible to have more moderation and to more actively tamp down alternative views but imo it's already excessive and reducing the scope of ideas here.
- oneplane 2y agoDo you have any examples where that is the case, rather than obvious rule breaking? I have seen some "voted down because people don't like it" but not "hidden because people don't like it". Voting does not equal moderation activity, it's just end-user voting which doesn't really represent the website's rules. As for why the text up top would still apply: the moderation methods don't prevent brigading or SEO poisoning, so even if HN was perfectly moderately moderated to moderate modernity, it wouldn't help since all scrapers (including search engines and LLM companies) will still connect this content together.
- wmf 2y agoI've seen plenty of [dead] political comments and then some people complain that HN has a very biased definition of what is and is not political. Ultimately I don't think there's anything to do about this; there will always be people who don't like the rules.