Analyzing HN moderation and censorship

Re:Analyzing HN moderation and censorship by abandonliberty on Thursday October 19, 2017 @11:39AM (#15508829)

Luckily the community largely self-moderates and comments are generally very high value. At the moment we don't appear to have a significant troll problem.

Reddit was like this almost 10 years ago. This is the bliss of obscurity. We should hold a wake for Reddit 2010.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=reddit,h... (though I doubt people coming to this site actually google it)

Supposedly if you find the right subreddits it gets better, but since I have HN I haven't bothered. Nothing lasts forever - I wonder how long before HN goes the way of slashdot and reddit.

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Re:Analyzing HN moderation and censorship by tomkat0789 on Thursday October 19, 2017 @05:39PM (#15511763)

The problem with obscurity is I don't know where to find another HN when it goes the way of Slashdot! How do people find small unique sites like this?

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Re:Analyzing HN moderation and censorship by metiscus on Friday October 20, 2017 @12:01AM (#15513476)

Some people mentioned this place in a few threads during the whole Slashdot 2.0 thing and that lead me here. I presume if this place ever does go south similar things will happen. Let's work to keep this place what it is and make it better.

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Re:Analyzing HN moderation and censorship by abandonliberty on Sunday October 22, 2017 @04:24PM (#15528747)

I have the same concern. I assume right now there must be other similarly awesome communities that I just don't know about.

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Re:Analyzing HN moderation and censorship by SimbaOnSteroids on Thursday October 19, 2017 @05:10PM (#15511583)

I was under the impression this site grew by word of mouth and that advertising it to any and everyone was a bit antithetical to then purpose of the site.

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