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I should add: Many years ago I used to read a news site that was modeled after slashdot. One day the person running it decided to switch it to be community-mode
by gwbas1c 1y ago
I should add: Many years ago I used to read a news site that was modeled after slashdot. One day the person running it decided to switch it to be community-moderated.
Every day it was the same discussion over again, from someone who didn't bother to do a Google search or look at what was posted the day prior. After a week or so of seeing the same discussion over and over again, I stopped reading the news site.
Needless to say, it's important to occasionally have discussions like this. I also think we under-appreciate the amount of moderation that goes on here. Sometimes I look at the "new" feed and it is just loaded with lots and lots of nonsense, so I get that someone has to put their finger on the scale to keep the quality up.
- fingerlocks 1y agoKuro5hin?
- PaulRobinson 1y agokuro5hin just died out of becoming a weird clique of insiders developing bullying memes that they found hilarious and everyone else found tedious. I'm sad it's gone, but also very much not sad.
- CoastalCoder 1y agoOut of curiosity, what was the site? The only clone I'm familiar with is (defunct) christdot.org.
- gwbas1c 1y agoSmokedot.org, in 2002. I'll let you guess what the site was! The problem was similar to a Goldfish group I left on Facebook: Every day someone, in a panic, would ask for help with a sick goldfish with the same exact symptoms as a post made the day prior. Needless to say, if a community can't occasionally discuss what content it wants, and what content to exclude, it devolves. HN has a "no politics" rule. I think it's okay to discuss if other content needs to be excluded too.