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Two months ago I was worried that with the Obama surge things would break apart and collapse and become generic as a site like Reddit's become. To my surprise,
by unalone 18y ago
Two months ago I was worried that with the Obama surge things would break apart and collapse and become generic as a site like Reddit's become. To my surprise, it's managed to hold together incredibly well. And I love it: this is absolutely the best community I know of on the Internet.
- allenbrunson 18y ago"it" didn't magically hold together. that was the work of the editors! if you read the site with showdead turned on in your profile, you'll see that a record number of users and submissions are getting killed. just to be clear, that's not me screaming censorship. it's rare for me to see a dead comment or submission that i wouldn't have killed myself, if i had the power to do it.
- unalone 18y agoYep! I flag a lot of stuff in the new section. I'm just always surprised to see how effective that is at pruning the site.
- yters 18y agoBesides the excellent moderation, another huge contributor is that instead of being a generic medium for posting articles and discussion, like slashdot, HN is founded on pg, in a sense. His ethos is the site's ethos.
- mixmax 18y agoyes - but without the cult-like persona following that often arises in situations like these. Which both he and us probably thinks is good.
- andreyf 18y agowithout the cult-like persona following To be fair, maybe a little cult-like persona following...
- captainobvious 18y agoAre you trying to get excommunicated?