Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead

Re:Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead by prododev on Thursday February 13, 2025 @11:04AM (#43037307)

HN is pretty low moderation across the axis of personal attacks. If you politely say a ad hominem or racist or *-phobic thing here, it's unlikely you'll be moderated for it, for instance.

I can dig up many such examples, but I suspect the response would be, "of course that's not moderated" because this community has a different set of values than some others.

Moderation is always an editorial action, and as such we tend to view it as strong when it aligns with our own values and weak when it doesn't.

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Re:Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead by dang on Thursday February 13, 2025 @04:52PM (#43041860)

That doesn't match my experience of what we do, so I'd like to see those "many such examples".

IMO, if you're going to make charges like this, which would be serious if they were true, you should include links so readers can make up their own minds.

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Re:Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead by prododev on Thursday February 13, 2025 @10:00PM (#43044303)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42461200

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42907076

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42783776

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42780835

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42718838

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42708579

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42700319

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43034231

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43031405

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42959625

My methodology: Search for any of the following terms: woman, biological, Black, Latino, gay, trans, woke, dei, or virtue signal

Set to "Comments" and "30 days". You'll find plenty of people saying things that are pretty awful. Yes, they are not the majority of posts, this place isn't a cesspool, it's just a place that permits "just asking questions" or "it's up for debate" as a defense for behavior

I could find many, MANY more examples.

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Re:Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead by dang on Thursday February 13, 2025 @11:59PM (#43045002)

Thanks! I appreciate your taking the time to do this.

Of the 10 links you listed, 7 seem to me obviously to break the site guidelines and I've flagkilled them. One, incidentally, was from an account that we banned earlier today (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43042278), and another was from an account that we banned a couple days later (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42483610).

Of the remaining 3 of the 10, I disagree with you about saagarjha's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42907076. That one seems thoughtful and in keeping with the site guidelines. It does use a lot of sort-of trigger words (I counted "trans", "vegan", "left wing", "Democrat", "progressive", "conservatism", "Republican"), but surely we're not going to punish people just for using words like that.

The other two seemed borderline to me, although I confess that one was so long that I couldn't read it before becoming le tired.

> I could find many, MANY more examples.

I'd be very interested in seeing them, and I hope it's clear that I really mean that. I don't want to argue about this—I want to see what you're seeing.

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