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Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys

by tomhow 4mo ago

Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

slopinthebag 4mo ago
My bad, I will do better. I know you guys are spread pretty thin managing the site, so I went through the comments for this post and collected some other comments which are also probably breaking site rules. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576065 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576065 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576162 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576162 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576183 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576183 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575948 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575948 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575697 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575697 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575877 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575877 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576280 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576280 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576241 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576241
- tomhow 4mo ago
  Some are, some aren't, but could you please just flag comments that break the guidelines, or if they're particularly egregious, email us (hn@ycombinator.com).
- ofjcihen 4mo ago
  Genuinely hilarious reply. On that note it would be interesting to do a sentiment analysis of flagged replies. They seem all over the place and it would be interesting to see if there were any biases.
  - tomhow 4mo ago
    Believe it or not, between the two of us we don't read and deliberate on all of the 10,000+ comments submitted here each day. We obviously can only read a small fraction of them via routine monitoring of the site, and we're less likely to see comments in threads like this one that spend fewer than two hours on the front page. We're much more likely to see the comments that are put on our radar via community flags and emails, which is why I saw the one I replied to and not the others. For what it's worth, sentiment analysis is unlikely to yield useful findings in this context, because the probability of a bad comment being flagged is highly correlated with the number of people who see it, which will be much lower in a thread that spends little time on the front page, but a sentiment analysis model won't have access to that data.
    - ofjcihen 4mo ago
      So 1: I have no idea why you’re replying to me as if I’m attacking you. I’m not and I’m aware of how hard moderation can be as I’ve done it. 2: My idea for sentiment analysis was geared towards bias from this site and its users, not towards the moderation team. 3: While I respect the mod team I’m incredibly unimpressed with your response here, even if this was a misinterpretation of what I meant. Take a breather.
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      - tomhow 4mo ago
        It wasn't clear whether you were making a swipe at moderation or the community or both, and I guess I tried to cover all possibilities. You've clarified that it was at the community. Thanks for that. But the guidelines specifically ask us to avoid sneering at the community, because it's repetitive and unfair to the people here. HN is large and heterogeneous.
        ofjcihen 4mo ago
        > On that note it would be interesting to do a sentiment analysis of flagged replies. They seem all over the place and it would be interesting to see if there were any biases. Show me where the sneer is. You didn’t “try to cover all possibilities”. You responded to the worst interpretation of what I said and injected some heavy snark in the process. At this point what I see is a moderator who made a mistake and needs to get the last word in which is frankly ridiculous. Please stop interacting with me unless you have some actual rules to enforce.

by tomhow 4mo ago

slopinthebag 4mo ago

My bad, I will do better. I know you guys are spread pretty thin managing the site, so I went through the comments for this post and collected some other comments which are also probably breaking site rules. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576065 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576065 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576162 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576162 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576183 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576183 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575948 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575948 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575697 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575697 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575877 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575877 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576280 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576280 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576241 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576241

tomhow 4mo ago
Some are, some aren't, but could you please just flag comments that break the guidelines, or if they're particularly egregious, email us (hn@ycombinator.com).
ofjcihen 4mo ago
Genuinely hilarious reply. On that note it would be interesting to do a sentiment analysis of flagged replies. They seem all over the place and it would be interesting to see if there were any biases.
- tomhow 4mo ago
  Believe it or not, between the two of us we don't read and deliberate on all of the 10,000+ comments submitted here each day. We obviously can only read a small fraction of them via routine monitoring of the site, and we're less likely to see comments in threads like this one that spend fewer than two hours on the front page. We're much more likely to see the comments that are put on our radar via community flags and emails, which is why I saw the one I replied to and not the others. For what it's worth, sentiment analysis is unlikely to yield useful findings in this context, because the probability of a bad comment being flagged is highly correlated with the number of people who see it, which will be much lower in a thread that spends little time on the front page, but a sentiment analysis model won't have access to that data.
  - ofjcihen 4mo ago
    So 1: I have no idea why you’re replying to me as if I’m attacking you. I’m not and I’m aware of how hard moderation can be as I’ve done it. 2: My idea for sentiment analysis was geared towards bias from this site and its users, not towards the moderation team. 3: While I respect the mod team I’m incredibly unimpressed with your response here, even if this was a misinterpretation of what I meant. Take a breather.
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    - tomhow 4mo ago
      It wasn't clear whether you were making a swipe at moderation or the community or both, and I guess I tried to cover all possibilities. You've clarified that it was at the community. Thanks for that. But the guidelines specifically ask us to avoid sneering at the community, because it's repetitive and unfair to the people here. HN is large and heterogeneous.
      - ofjcihen 4mo ago
        > On that note it would be interesting to do a sentiment analysis of flagged replies. They seem all over the place and it would be interesting to see if there were any biases. Show me where the sneer is. You didn’t “try to cover all possibilities”. You responded to the worst interpretation of what I said and injected some heavy snark in the process. At this point what I see is a moderator who made a mistake and needs to get the last word in which is frankly ridiculous. Please stop interacting with me unless you have some actual rules to enforce.