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Re:Analyzing HN moderation and censorship by vormalpg on Thursday October 19, 2017 @10:36AM (#15508265)
Notice how subjective those descriptors are. It's been very clear in the past that moderator intervention is rampant for articles / posts that merely strike a raw nerve.
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Re:Analyzing HN moderation and censorship by intopieces on Thursday October 19, 2017 @11:25AM (#15508697)
Yep, they are subjective. That's what I want. I want the HN mods to curate the content based on those guidelines. It's what makes this site worth coming to.

I'm willing a optimize for precision over recall here.

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Re:Analyzing HN moderation and censorship by ZenoArrow on Thursday October 19, 2017 @01:36PM (#15509857)
> "Yep, they are subjective. That's what I want. I want the HN mods to curate the content based on those guidelines. It's what makes this site worth coming to."

Agreed. If you try to make something more prescriptive then you end up with a massive increase in bureaucracy as you try to categorise every kind of content and every type of way of presenting that content. Effectively you turn moderators into lawyers and judges.

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Re:Analyzing HN moderation and censorship by sgift on Thursday October 19, 2017 @10:40AM (#15508299)
If they were objective they could be automated. The whole reason for manual moderation is that this is not possible.
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