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Hector Martin

Ah yes, top quality discussion on Hacker News. 🙃​
8 Jun 2023 at 8:00 | Open on social.treehouse.systems
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Hector Martin

I'm just going to screenshot a bunch of choice comments to show off HN's legendary moderation, so I can point at this next time someone asks what's so bad about HN.

13 hours ago, flagged but still visible (not dead, so no difference).
8 Jun 2023 at 8:11 | Open on social.treehouse.systems
Hector Martin

But meanwhile self-critical comments like these also get downvoted and eventually disappear, furthering the echo chamber that there is totally no problem with HN.
8 Jun 2023 at 8:13 | Open on social.treehouse.systems
Hector Martin

Seriously, the initial discussion had some people rightly pointing out that the noreferrer thing is ridiculous, but watch them all fade into oblivion.

These people don't even want to *have* the conversation. If you disagree with them, you get flagged.
8 Jun 2023 at 8:19 | Open on social.treehouse.systems
Hector Martin

- None of the comments were deleted by staff, only the top one (which was overt, blatant transphobia, direct harassment, and a misguided doxxing attempt all in one) was flagged by users.
- The immediate reply quoted the entirety of the abusive comment, thus keeping it alive and visible for everyone, making the flag useless.
- None of the replies by the ostensibly banned original author, which were also abusive, were removed. Which, by the way, happened like a month after the comment was posted.

But HN moderation is just fine. Dang is "not sure what else they should have done there".

- None of the comments were deleted by staff, only the top one (which was overt, blatant transphobia, direct harassment, and a misguided doxxing attempt all in one) was flagged by users.
- The immediate reply quoted the entirety of the abusive comment, thus keeping it alive and visible for everyone, making the flag useless.
- None of the replies by the ostensibly banned original author, which were also abusive, were removed. Which, by the way, happened like a month after the comment was posted.
8 Jun 2023 at 8:21 | Open on social.treehouse.systems
Hector Martin

Reply to suggestion to ban blatant anti-LGBT bigotry: "So your solution is to ban everyone who disagrees with you?"
8 Jun 2023 at 8:26 | Open on social.treehouse.systems
Hector Martin

Let's not talk about our community becoming a cesspool. In fact, let's suppress any such discussion.

That is clearly a sign of a healthy community, right?
8 Jun 2023 at 8:26 | Open on social.treehouse.systems
Hector Martin

Another comment advocating self-reflection fading into oblivion.

But you know what *did* get immediately flagged and removed from the front page? Alyssa's blogpost about how trans people, including trans developers of software every Linux user uses every day, are being attacked in the US right now.

Also, since the Rust threads were mentioned: On one of those, HN commenters managed to absolutely gratuitously bring up an Asahi developer for absolutely no reason, followed by a double digit comment pile-up of harassment.

Yeah.

Another comment advocating self-reflection fading into oblivion.

But you know what *did* get immediately flagged and removed from the front page? Alyssa's blogpost about how trans people, including trans developers of software every Linux user uses every day, are being attacked in the US right now.

Also, since the Rust threads were mentioned: On one of those, HN commenters managed to absolutely gratuitously bring up an Asahi developer for absolutely no reason, followed by a double digit comment pile-up...
8 Jun 2023 at 8:28 | Open on social.treehouse.systems
Hector Martin

Sidenote, I find it hilarious how many HN commenters I managed to baffle and confuse with a, <a> tag with a :visited selector on it. That's, like, the most basic '90s HTML.
8 Jun 2023 at 8:34 | Open on social.treehouse.systems
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