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Re:Show HN: Reveddit.com: Improving online discourse with tr... by pixl97 on Saturday November 05, 2022 @10:55AM (#33482050)
Can we agree that hundreds of meme posts and hundreds of "That's what she said" posts are not helpful? You see that behavior on tons of popular subreddits that are less moderated. That the conversation looks like a copy of most of the other threads in the sub because of the low quality recycled posts.

If we did that on HN our posts would be flagged here too. We do need to separate out how much 'garbage' gets filtered from the ideas that are controversial opinions.

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Re:Show HN: Reveddit.com: Improving online discourse with tr... by rhaksw on Saturday November 05, 2022 @11:03AM (#33482141)
> Can we agree that hundreds of meme posts and hundreds of "That's what she said" posts are not helpful?

The dispute here is secret moderation, not what content gets removed.

If moderation were transparent, users would also be part of the decision making process. Currently they are not part of the process because their removed content is shown to them as if it is publicly possible.

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