Hacker News is a social echo chamber

Re:Hacker News is a social echo chamber by wellboy on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @08:04PM (#6557207)

You know what sux, stories critical of HN are getting flagged and pushed off the front page, exactly the flaw that this article points out. This article is at position 58 now with 308 upvotes after being submitted 9 hours ago. There's another link from 9h ago with 48 upvotes and it's at position 36.

This article is direct user feedback and points out that moderation is just harmful for what HN stands for, why "making it disappear". You can't moderate a community-driven website. You can for porn or harassment speech, but not for critique, seriously. Even if the critique is unconstructive, that's how humans discuss, don't moderate that, otherwise you will falsify the outcome.

That's like the NSA, always trying to control things and sweeping things under the carpet, no like.

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Re:Hacker News is a social echo chamber by pbreit on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @08:22PM (#6557270)

The ZenPayroll post disappeared pretty quickly, too.

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Re:Hacker News is a social echo chamber by wellboy on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @08:46PM (#6557347)

Hmm, well to make a community-driven website, but actually only with the content that the moderators deem worthy, is a good way to piss off users and to not make it change the world. It makes HN mediocre.

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