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Why does HN need its moderators to decide what's lame and what's not? I agree that HN needs moderators, and that they should be able to kill submissions, commen
by cool-RR 18y ago
Why does HN need its moderators to decide what's lame and what's not? I agree that HN needs moderators, and that they should be able to kill submissions, comments and/or users. But I understood that it's intended mostly for spam, or flame wars, or illegal content, etcetera.
Whenever an authority figure bans something because it is "lame" or "wrong" or "not worth reading", it lights up a red flag for me.
Do you understand the problem here?
- swombat 18y agoI'm not a moderator. I didn't kill it. I just flagged it. A number of other people did so too. And so the moderators looked at it and came to the similar conclusion that this was not worth having on the front page. So, it was not a single authority figure acting by themselves, it was a collective decision.
- cool-RR 18y agoOkay, it was collective. But it doesn't solve the problem.