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It would really depend on implementation wouldn't it? The incredibly strict anti-trolling policies around HN do make it a great place to come back to years lat
by alexc05 11y ago
It would really depend on implementation wouldn't it?
The incredibly strict anti-trolling policies around HN do make it a great place to come back to years later. Though HN also takes care to engineer the social interactions here too. (scores are hidden, upvotes only until you get to a certain karma level)
I do tend to worry a little about bias and inconsistent enforcement of their policies, but also believe that we'd have to see that play out over time.
Without question the stated goal of "diversity" is noble, valuable and, deserves to be pursued. The problems arise in their definition of diversity. Does it mean what I think it means?
What about their definition of "safe"? We're really going to have to wait and see.
I think calling this the demise of reddit is a bit premature.
Though I also struggle to believe that deleting the extremes will make it a more interesting or compelling place to be around.
There's a reason that maniacs stop taking lithium.
- iopq 11y agoIt took me more than two years to be able to downvote people. This is not a good thing.
- edgarvaldes 11y agoI still can't downvote after almost 3 years. I don't comment very often, so I don't have an incentive to chase the downvote privilege. But the thing is, after all this time, I dont want to downvote anymore, like the first time I came here. I just read and enjoy the place.
- mreiland 11y agoI can't downvote people, nor do I have any interest in doing so. I don't upvote people either.
- Vaskivo 11y agoSure it is. I believe it is better to elevate good posts/posts that I like, than silencing bad posts/posts that I dislike. I think there should only be UPvotes.
- iopq 11y agoThat's how you get troll posts. Enough people upvote an obvious troll to give it exposure, and not upvoting it does nothing.
- cozuya 11y agoHN's strategy of burying unpopular posts is very, very strange to me. While reddit's is similar, at least you can disable it manually - to do that for HN would require tampermonkey or the equivalent. Half the time I wind up just highlighting the text to read what someone wrote anyways. I don't really get it.
- adrianscott 11y agoInteresting to see this post drop off of HN front page from #2 to #70+ very quickly despite 80 comments and 40 points at the time... #curious
- cgearhart 11y agoI've been around here close to 5 years and I still can't downvote. I wouldn't say that it is a bad thing -- it just causes me to use HN very differently than Reddit (which seems to be the point).