Re:Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page
by throwaway743824 on Monday March 13, 2017 @10:38AM
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If they want to 'protect' the moderators they should use more neutral language focusing on the actions. You can easily say "This account has been x" instead of "We've x this account" or "x has been changed to reflect y" instead of "We've changed x to reflect y". It's less personal, but that's the point.
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Re:Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page
by Cthulhu_ on Monday March 13, 2017 @11:03AM
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I think that works best; a moderator is / should be only a member that happens to be responsible for maintaining the site's user behaviour policy and tidiness of articles posted, and thus decisions shouldn't be an "I" or "we" thing, but "the site". Of course, that's an utopia and no amount of rules will cover every situation.
Re:Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page
by rimliu on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @03:47AM
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It may sound stupid, but it'd make me feel better if moderators still used "I" even if otherwise completely anonymous. Still add human touch and personal responsibility to the act even if there is no way to call some particular person out.