Twitter Just Permanently Suspended Conservative Writer Milo Yiannopoulos

Re:Twitter Just Permanently Suspended Conservative Writer Mi... by dang on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @10:41AM (#12129336)

I can tell you what the answer is on Hacker News, at least. You have to treat others respectfully here because if we allowed users not to, the community would decay, the best people (who incidentally have no trouble being respectful) would leave, and this place would become uninteresting, like scorched earth. That's the biggest risk to this site so we take it seriously.

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Re:Twitter Just Permanently Suspended Conservative Writer Mi... by greatemployee on Thursday July 21, 2016 @07:50AM (#12136194)

I see this sort of argument a lot and I don't know how true it is.

Is it /really/ true that the best contributors are so sensitive? In my experience, these days it's actually the worst contributors or those who contribute not at all who are the most sensitive and liable to throw in the towel.

I'm sympathetic to your view but there is another risk that by overmoderating or catering to the most sensitive of contributors, HN will be left with non-interesting content, or controversial opinions will be silenced.

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