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600 points codetrotter | 1 comments | 05 Apr 23 21:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.229s | source
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subsubzero ◴[05 Apr 23 23:32 UTC] No.35461974[source]▶
Congrats Dang, you have done a wonderful job so far and moderate one of the most fantastic online communities out there. I am sure most of the job feels somewhat thankless but I want to let you know I(and many many other users on this site) appreciate your hard work and dedication.
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codeddesign ◴[06 Apr 23 01:08 UTC] No.35462773[source]▶
If by “finest” you mean a Reddit mob mentality for tech, then yes I completely agree with this statement.
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dang ◴[06 Apr 23 01:54 UTC] No.35463131[source]▶
What do you think we could do differently? Serious question.

I don't like the mob thing either but it's how large group dynamics on the internet work (by default). We try to mitigate it where we can but there's not a lot of knowledge about how to do that.

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Tommstein ◴[07 Apr 23 23:02 UTC] No.35488228[source]▶
An obvious thing that comes to mind is how downvoted comments are grayed and purposely made difficult to read, and flagged comments aren't readable at all. Being downvoted or flagged means (regardless of what they're supposed to mean) literally nothing other than "goes against the mob's mentality," so comments are penalized in a functional manner for going against the mob. They shouldn't have the power to artificially make opposing thoughts more difficult or impossible to read. Maybe control it with settings similar to showdead, for those who like the mob to curate the thoughts and ideas they're exposed to for them.
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1. dang ◴[09 Apr 23 05:41 UTC] No.35500310[source]▶
I don't like mob behaviors either, but there are plenty of reasons why comments get downvoted and flagged besides that. Low-quality flamewar comments, for example, deserve both downvotes and flags, for reasons that have nothing to do with mobs.

You've unfortunately been posting some of these yourself - e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35429902. Can you please not? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for, and we have to ban accounts that keep doing it.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.