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Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin... by praptak on Friday January 31, 2020 @02:49PM (#22204926)
This was shown repeatedly not to work. The only troll-free forums are those with good moderators.
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Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin... by kerkeslager on Friday January 31, 2020 @03:13PM (#22205153)
By what metric was this shown to not work?

I've been on lots of forums where the only rules were "no personal attacks and no porn" and they worked just fine. If the forum has a topic, then moderating to keep on topic is reasonable. Polite disagreement and discussion is the hallmark of a healthy forum.

There is of course more to curating a community than its moderation policy.

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Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin... by thinkingemote on Saturday February 01, 2020 @08:11AM (#22210311)
In terms of forums, the trolls existed but people knew how to ignore them. They didn't remove the troll, they just didn't feed them.
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Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin... by praptak on Sunday February 02, 2020 @08:07AM (#22216743)
You may ignore the trolls. Still there is always enough trolls and enough easily baited people for the S/N ratio to drop.

"Just ignore the troll" is a good personal advice it is just not sufficient for the forum as a whole.

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