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Re:Is content moderation a dead end? by dang on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @03:46PM (#26798089)
I agree that being specific about content makes things easier, but HN is not so specific. Anything intellectually interesting is on topic (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), and that makes for a lot of long, difficult explanations - e.g.:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

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Re:Is content moderation a dead end? by intended on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @06:15PM (#26800050)
Greater institutions have fallen; thats when we got the term Eternal September. It just takes the right influx of users to overcome the human moderators.
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Re:Is content moderation a dead end? by proc0 on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @04:15PM (#26798591)
Sure, maybe it's not that constrained, but consider something like memes, which is expected of many sites, but definitely not here.
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