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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by skohan on Friday October 28, 2022 @02:57PM (#33375864)
If that were really their goal, theoretically they could be. For instance, this forum has features, like invisible vote counts, and exponential cool-down periods which encourage healthy conversations.

Whether that is compatible with their business goals is another question.

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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by jupp0r on Friday October 28, 2022 @03:39PM (#33376629)
This forum also has an educated crowd of nerds at the heart of its community. Twitter used to have that too and was a much more civil but also less interesting space when I joined in 2008.
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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by davidw on Friday October 28, 2022 @04:03PM (#33377032)
HN is civil because of moderation, not because of the community.
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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by gopher_space on Friday October 28, 2022 @05:32PM (#33378183)
The moderation on HN helps retain civil community members as well. I've been thinking about moderation as a chicken-or-egg situation but maybe it's more of an equilibrium issue. I should go over my old slashdot comments and see if I remember what pushed me out.
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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by cmh89 on Friday October 28, 2022 @06:55PM (#33379014)
Are you the davidw from reddit? Do you ever go on /r/portland? It's moderated to the max yet its still neither civil or engaging. Moderation matters but I think HN does a lot better due to the features that promote well thought out posts and don't really allow trolls to get much traction.
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