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I agree that HN can operate how it wishes. I'm not sure that barring disgusting speech is "necessary," if only because "necessary" can be such a loaded word.
by danielweber 14y ago
I agree that HN can operate how it wishes.
I'm not sure that barring disgusting speech is "necessary," if only because "necessary" can be such a loaded word.
reddit, for example, seems to have a principle of free speech, where there only a very specific things you are not allowed to say board-wide. So there is a fair amount of disgusting speech there. It seems to work for them -- although I have been slowly disengaging from it over the past year or two, and maybe that's part of the reason.
- aristidb 14y agoDon't some individual subreddits moderate fairly heavily? And the upvoting/downvoting also has the effect of hiding disliked speech.
- danielweber 14y agoYes, they do, and the admins support lots of freedom and experimentation for the subreddit moderation policies. (Although there are "default" subreddits that are a little weird.) The sitewide bans, to my recollection, are of only two things (besides that which is illegal): sexualized pictures of children, and doxxing.