Re:Designing Social Systems Without Causing Depression and War
by j_s on Thursday January 18, 2018 @09:33AM
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Careful, 'downvote to disagree' may disagree with you! :)
I personally would like to see a public indication of the ratio of upvotes to downvotes, and maybe comments to flags. Without this or some other system of checks & balances (even just a total number of submissions & comments on the user account page), completely anonymous moderation by HN users passing by will continue running the site. (Users on mobile devices who choose not to comment because it's a pain to include links to sources may deserve some consideration.)
The permanence of the site adds some unique properties as well: are there any other sites that lock edits after 1 hour or prevent deletion once there is a reply (or even any that attempt to accomplish anything even close to similar, whatever the means)?
I personally would like to see a public indication of the ratio of upvotes to downvotes, and maybe comments to flags. Without this or some other system of checks & balances (even just a total number of submissions & comments on the user account page), completely anonymous moderation by HN users passing by will continue running the site. (Users on mobile devices who choose not to comment because it's a pain to include links to sources may deserve some consideration.)
The permanence of the site adds some unique properties as well: are there any other sites that lock edits after 1 hour or prevent deletion once there is a reply (or even any that attempt to accomplish anything even close to similar, whatever the means)?