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Seems dangerously close to the way reddit went down by silencing anyone with controversial opinions.
by randomNumber7 8mo ago
Seems 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...