Re:Tell HN: Uptick in mean-spirited comments
by petervandijck on Sunday October 31, 2010 @12:44PM
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I've had to close a large-ish site of mine due to meanness. Things can get very nasty online, it's hard to really understand until you've tried running one of these.
Re:Tell HN: Uptick in mean-spirited comments
by gruseom on Sunday October 31, 2010 @01:27PM
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Sounds like you have a lot more experience than most of us. What's in the intersection of that and your observations of HN?
Re:Tell HN: Uptick in mean-spirited comments
by petervandijck on Sunday October 31, 2010 @05:47PM
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(Sorry I don't understand the question.)
Re:Tell HN: Uptick in mean-spirited comments
by gruseom on Sunday October 31, 2010 @11:19PM
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I was just wondering if there are any interesting things you noticed on your own site that you've also noticed here.
Re:Tell HN: Uptick in mean-spirited comments
by mfukar on Sunday October 31, 2010 @05:55AM
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Preventing the site from declining into a set of meanness and stupidity (I believe the two are closely related) is something I think about constantly.
Does that imply anything regarding hateful posts in HN, or is it just a 'hey, there's a correlation here' observation?
This site is not in a state of nature. There are all kinds of things I do to keep meanness at bay, and the situation would be a lot worse if I didn't. Preventing the site from declining into a swamp of meanness and stupidity (I believe the two are closely related) is something I think about constantly.