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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by slibhb on Saturday April 16, 2022 @12:36PM (#31053747)
No, "low effort provocations" has nothing to do with "disinformation" or "spreading knowable lies". I am genuinly astonished that you think all those things are synonyms.

news.ycombinator.com does this right -- moderators rarely moderate based on the message or idea in a post and their opinion about its truth-value. Rather, posts are moderated for being provocative, overly rude, including slurs, low effort, and so on.

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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by unethical_ban on Saturday April 16, 2022 @02:55PM (#31055025)
I'm making the point that deliberate misinformation is provocation. Claims without evidence, baseless contrarian assertions with no semblance of logic, is provocation. Posting snarky one-liner "rebuttals" to a paragraphs-long post is provocation.

Not all of those things deserve the same level of reaction, but they are a disservice to useful conversation and should be moderated/downvoted accordingly.

I agree that HN does it correctly, so I wonder where our disconnect is.

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