Re:Hyperinflation Pushes Venezuela to Print 1M-Bolivar Bills
by lucian1900 on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @05:06AM
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The only data I have is what I’ve seen. What quotes you provided described the two sides of the US political spectrum, which is widely understood to be significantly skewed to the right with respect to the rest of the world.
Moderation policy is itself an ideological choice. Seeking civility and avoiding meta-commentary doesn’t affect all political stances evenly.
Re:Hyperinflation Pushes Venezuela to Print 1M-Bolivar Bills
by dang on Thursday March 11, 2021 @02:13PM
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That's true, although seeking civility is not the issue here. We dropped that language years ago because it leads to wrong associations.
The issue is that we don't want the site to burn itself to a crisp (the well known default outcome of internet forums). If you've got a better idea how we can achieve that, I'd love to hear it.
Alas, we're going in circles now. That's certainly not true and a classic example of overgeneralizing from skewed data.
Can you really not understand why we'd moderate a comment like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26368582 without appealing to ideology? It plainly violated the site guidelines, and the account had been breaking them aggressively (and surely on purpose) even after repeated requests to stop.
That's bog-standard moderation based simply on trying to keep the forum alive for interesting conversation, as opposed to flamewar and scorched earth. Interesting HN conversations can and do contain interesting comments with anti-imperialist ideas...but this case was obviously not that.