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Agreed, but it's hard to reverse a trend after the fact. The key is that he react to negative forces before they occur, which involves a bit of magic.
by run4yourlives 18y ago
Agreed, but it's hard to reverse a trend after the fact. The key is that he react to negative forces before they occur, which involves a bit of magic.
- unalone 18y agoWhen he holds the keys to the user accounts and the stories, he can react pretty quickly. He's shut off accounts temporarily (once to avoid an edit war over a title), and during the Obama election, a lot of stories ended up dead very quickly. That's what kept the site contained.
- run4yourlives 18y agoAgain though, this is not something unique to HN. Digg is notorious for banning accounts.
- unalone 18y agoNot for the same reasons - Digg does it for people gaming the system. Here, that kind of thing is exceedingly rare, and HN doesn't ban most of the accounts, it just auto-kills their submissions. HN takes a unique approach to why accounts are banned. If you troll or get into flamefests, pg very often takes time to tell you you're doing poorly (that happened to me last summer). If you keep doing after that, then you get disabled - I think. It's a system that's very hands-on and it's kept this place scaling really nicely.