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Kill | blast | nuke
by wgx 12y ago
Kill | blast | nuke
- angersock 12y agoOne wonders what the difference in behaviors these have is?
- dm2 12y agoProbably kill = hide from front page, blast = hide from all, and nuke = delete from database (maybe soft-delete). Pure speculation though.
- iancarroll 12y agoKill makes it dead, blast makes it trend down the front page fast, nuke is delete/hide. So I believe.
- dm2 12y agoWhat does "dead" mean?
- aroch 12y ago"dead" on HN is like locking and hiding a thread -- no more voting or commenting and the thread disappears.
- kyrra 12y agodead posts are hidden by default. I believe once you have enough kamra there is a "showdead" option you can enable in your preferences. Dead posts/comments will be marked as [dead], but you can at least still see them.
- ojbyrne 12y agoIf nuke is "delete/hide," then what is "delete?"
- dang 12y ago"Delete" is like "dead", except that the posts aren't visible even if you have showdead turned on. We don't ever delete things unless users ask us to—typically because the window for deleting their own post has expired—and then only when they have a good reason for asking. Otherwise HN's bias is toward preserving history. Coincidentally, I posted something else about "delete" a few hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7975137 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7975137.
- dang 12y ago> One wonders what the difference in behaviors these have is? "Kill" makes an item be "[dead]", i.e. hidden from users who don't have the "showdead" setting turned on in their profile. A typical case is killing duplicate posts when they don't have an ongoing discussion. "Blast" is like "kill", but also bans the user. A typical case is banning trolls. "Nuke" is like "blast", but also bans the site. That is for spammers. Oddly enough, no one asked about the most important by far of all these links, perhaps because it also has the blandest name: "edit". That goes to a page where we can edit an item's title or url, or put some moderation flag on a story.
- X4 12y agoThe Ego of the Mod who uses this. Someone's feeling powerful there. My 1234th day……
- dang 12y agoYou may not believe it, but the feeling evoked by using those tools is not "mad with power" so much as "is this really what I want to be doing with my life". It's not dictatorial, it's janitorial. Other aspects of the job are better. I'm not just speaking for myself here, but for everyone who's done it.
- hemoglobin 12y agokill: - 10; blast: + 10; nuke: - 100; /conjecture
- majani 12y agofunny how H N users were up in arms about the recent Facebook mood experiment yet they are in one of the most controlled environments on the internet ...
- dang 12y agoWhat are you referring to?
- majani 12y agohow HN regularly buries posts that critique the startup scene
- dang 12y agoI'm not sure what you're talking about, but moderators don't do anything of that sort.
- personjerry 12y agoSuch a bias may be the result of the community's opinions and consequent voting.