Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web (2017)
by readarticle on Friday May 29, 2020 @04:33AM
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Is that also the reason they launched with a public mod log, tags, and downvote explanations?
The presence of a trivially bypassed invite tree completely invalidates the public, historical reasoning behind the founding from the founder themself in 2012?
Feel free to open those links I posted before replying.
It absolutely had everything to do with it. That's the reason lobste.rs is invite only forum. They had a rather big drama there recently as astroturfer still snuck in even through invite only system resulting in increasing of account restrictions on posting etc.
Personally I think their limits are a bit too strict though when you browse hacker news almost every day you can see how that's necessary.