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Re:Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything... by gwbas1c on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @05:30PM (#44576009)
I should add: Many years ago I used to read a news site that was modeled after slashdot. One day the person running it decided to switch it to be community-moderated.

Every day it was the same discussion over again, from someone who didn't bother to do a Google search or look at what was posted the day prior. After a week or so of seeing the same discussion over and over again, I stopped reading the news site.

Needless to say, it's important to occasionally have discussions like this. I also think we under-appreciate the amount of moderation that goes on here. Sometimes I look at the "new" feed and it is just loaded with lots and lots of nonsense, so I get that someone has to put their finger on the scale to keep the quality up.

Re:Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything... by fingerlocks on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @09:23PM (#44577772)
Kuro5hin?
Re:Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything... by PaulRobinson on Friday July 18, 2025 @01:01PM (#44607109)
kuro5hin just died out of becoming a weird clique of insiders developing bullying memes that they found hilarious and everyone else found tedious. I'm sad it's gone, but also very much not sad.
Re:Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything... by CoastalCoder on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @09:30PM (#44577812)
Out of curiosity, what was the site?

The only clone I'm familiar with is (defunct) christdot.org.

Re:Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything... by gwbas1c on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @12:21AM (#44578639)
Smokedot.org, in 2002.

I'll let you guess what the site was!

The problem was similar to a Goldfish group I left on Facebook: Every day someone, in a panic, would ask for help with a sick goldfish with the same exact symptoms as a post made the day prior.

Needless to say, if a community can't occasionally discuss what content it wants, and what content to exclude, it devolves. HN has a "no politics" rule. I think it's okay to discuss if other content needs to be excluded too.