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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to HN less web-focused and more tech... by krapp on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @09:44AM (#9929586)
Lobste.rs is a curated, invite-only site where you can get banned if anyone you invite (or anyone they invite) causes problems, because those relationships are graphed. Every new member is a burden and every post a potential risk. Obviously, such a community would self-select for safe, uncontroversial content, and tend towards reposting things which have proven uncontroversial elsewhere.

That said, I personally prefer their layout to HN, it maintains simplicity while allowing for a better feature set.

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to HN less web-focused and more tech... by lifeisstillgood on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @12:52PM (#9930772)
So I am hostage to my friends comments, or only people with bad judgement invite others?

Sounds odd to punish the inviter

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to HN less web-focused and more tech... by krapp on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @03:39PM (#9931796)
Obviously, you'll be fine if you only invite the right sort of people, and you'll be better if you never invite anyone at all.

A community run on the premise that the Eternal September effect must be avoided at any cost, inevitably, will come to see new membership as toxic.

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