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I have experienced this issue some time too - I think if you post some "controversial" comment (judged by many quick upvotes and downvotes) it triggers a "cooli
by thisislife2 8mo ago
I have experienced this issue some time too - I think if you post some "controversial" comment (judged by many quick upvotes and downvotes) it triggers a "cooling down" period before you can post a reply to your immediate child comments in the thread (or it could be mod-triggered). This ensures you don't dominate the thread, and allows a conversation with other participants to develop. Based on how others react to the comments, I assume it also gives the mods a better idea if they need to intervene. I found it a minor annoyance at first, but have learnt to appreciate it - thoughtful comments (with careful moderation) from a diverse group of people is what makes a community like this valuable.
- randomNumber7 8mo agoSeems dangerously close to the way reddit went down by silencing anyone with controversial opinions.
- alephnerd 8mo agoEhn, HN has always been strongly moderated. I've gotten into plenty of flamewars with Dems, Republicans, Anti-Vaxxers, Pro-Vaxxers, AI Luddites, AI Fundamentalists, China bots, China hawks, Apple fanatics, Apple haters, far-right, far-left, pro-WFH, anti-WFH, pro-immigration, anti-immigration, and others on HN. I just don't care about filtering my opinions and use HN as a way to kvetch and impart some information I may know about.
- randomNumber7 8mo agoAt least all this different viewpoints are here, so maybe the difference is if the moderation is ideologically motivated or not.
- alephnerd 8mo agoI'm not quite sure. I and a couple other long-time HN users have noticed a significant degradation in HN after a persistent boom in sign-ups began around 2022-23. It's hard to answer lol.
- randomNumber7 8mo agoI also think that the quality declined with the incoming AI crowd but on the other hand I also got older over the last years and increased my own skill level...