News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Bring Back Crappy Forums by andai on Thursday July 02, 2026 @10:14AM (#48761965)
I'm reminded of this amusing comment by dang on this subject:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24215601

A bunch of people skim the article (or just the title), post hot takes, then there's responses to those, and so on...

Re:Bring Back Crappy Forums by econ on Thursday July 02, 2026 @05:08PM (#48767395)
I had some hilarious moderation experiences by deleting all negative responses from topics specifically chosen attract negativity. People got so mad that they couldn't rub their poop on the conversation. I respond to their mails with some of the funniest trolling in my career. Meanwhile the conversations were all love and peace among the like minded.