I resigned from Twitter

Re:I resigned from Twitter by vlunkr on Monday November 29, 2021 @02:41PM (#29384255)

I don't think that's a contradiction personally. Most reasonable people accept that some level of censorship is necessary for a good discussion, especially when hundreds or thousands of people are involved. HN style moderation doesn't exactly scale to twitter size easily though.

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Re:I resigned from Twitter by cauthon on Monday November 29, 2021 @03:40PM (#29384974)

I think OP is pointing out the irony that HN is popular among people who claim to not accept that.

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Re:I resigned from Twitter by 22c on Monday November 29, 2021 @04:24PM (#29385474)

People try to make the argument that Twitter and (maybe to a lesser extent) Facebook are akin to a "town square", whereas I don't think people consider the HN comments section a "town square".

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Re:I resigned from Twitter by AmericanChopper on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @03:20AM (#29390061)

HN as a platform is effectively dedicated to a narrow set of topics, with a largely homogeneous user base (compared to any mainstream social media at least). I don’t think the consensus here is particularly favourable towards free speech, and it certainly has a very narrow Overton Window of acceptable ideas. The user moderation features also heavily reinforce whatever groupthink is popular, you have to “accepted” by accumulating a large amount of karma to influence voting, and 4 in-group users disagreeing with a comment is enough to remove it from the discussion.

I think Dang’s moderation is usually pretty decent, but I really don’t think this is a place where free speech is championed. In any thread on the topic, calls for increased speech regulation seem to be very popular.

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Re:I resigned from Twitter by 22c on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @10:10PM (#29400220)

I've been lurking on HN for about the last 8 years or so but only a few years ago made an account and I sparsely comment. Only a couple of weeks ago was my account considered worthy of being able to vote down. Meanwhile I've seen users essentially "game" their comment karma to high amounts within a few weeks.

I don't really agree with the idea that this place is an echo chamber, but I do sort of see it as similar to an IT meetup. You generally don't go to an IT focused meetup and start talking about abortion, religion, etc. and nobody would be surprised if you were kindly asked to leave the venue if you insisted on soap-boxing. If someone came and carted you off in a black van for speaking in a public place about your feelings on abortion I'd expect there to be a lot of push back from the public.

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Re:I resigned from Twitter by AmericanChopper on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @12:51AM (#29401105)

Politics is discussed all the time in HN. It’s not a generally taboo topic at all.

I don’t think I’d go as far as saying it’s a full blown echo chamber either. But theres a pretty clear orthodoxy on certain topics here.

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Re:I resigned from Twitter by 22c on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @05:59PM (#29410255)

I think it's discussed only where it's considered "on-topic". In my experience, many politcal articles are quickly removed as off-topic unless there's some technological bend to it. For example, politics in a thread about Julia 1.7 release would be "off-topic", politics in a thread about net neutrality might be on-topic but only up to a certain degree.

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Re:I resigned from Twitter by boringg on Monday November 29, 2021 @02:10PM (#29383854)

Can you provide specific examples please? It would seem that it moderates trolling content, self promotional or bot level garbage.

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Re:I resigned from Twitter by re on Monday November 29, 2021 @02:26PM (#29384042)

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

You can also try searching for "please by:dang"

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Re:I resigned from Twitter by boringg on Monday November 29, 2021 @02:34PM (#29384151)

Great examples - social media platforms could do well and follow dang's example.

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Re:I resigned from Twitter by Apocryphon on Monday November 29, 2021 @02:20PM (#29383975)

That in itself makes it more heavily moderated than Facebook or Twitter, though of course that’s also attributable to manageable scale.

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Re:I resigned from Twitter by ssully on Monday November 29, 2021 @02:18PM (#29383950)

Not the OP, but your examples of bot level garbage and trolling content are perfect for Twitter. I would include self promotion, but that is such a core part of social media.

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