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Hi HN, I built Reveddit [1] a few years ago to let Reddit users know when their comments get secretly removed. I've now built GhostedWatch to do the same thing for the .win sites (…

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> In the tussle between regulators and companies, companies are disadvantaged. When society once again properly separates governmental powers, it will restore balance, and then com…

> "Tempo/MacQuake Palace" Confession: I ran that. Sorry, Apple– that was wrong! If I recall correctly, I'd grab the latest version from a private Hotline site, then re-host it on m…

> The democratic element is in the selection of an executive every 4 years. That did nothing to help the fishery in this case. The burdens placed upon them came from a lower level …

> I think it's more analogous to the overlap between police and prosecutors. Those both fall under the executive branch. Plus, Chevron deference was about the court's actions, not …

This decision has more to do with the Court owning its own past mistake, where they deferred to executive agencies. But both the judiciary and the legislative enabled the executive…

He's probably referring to Administrative Law Justices (ALJs), who are part of the executive, not the judiciary.

The executive does not interpret law in the sense understood by the separation of powers. Interpretation is a judiciary power.

> Chevron was based on the idea that if statutory text is ambiguous the people in charge of implementing said statute were best positioned to figure out what it meant Wouldn't it b…

It's more clear if you use the word vest and divest rather than delegation. Congress cannot divest its own legislative powers, nor can it vest them in another branch.

Congress cannot divest its legislative power, nor can it vest interpretive power to executive-branch agencies. The judiciary interprets law— not Congress.

I'd argue their success comes from making people think they're in an open discussion forum, or at least know when they're moderated, when in fact users get moderated left and right…

Interesting, it has a del.icio.us scraper. I still don't understand why that site disappeared, it was great. By my recollection, Yahoo bought it and killed it.

Tons of mod tools built on top of shadow comment removals: crowd control, comment nuke, disruptive comment collapsing, contributor quality score, subreddit shadow bans via automode…

In the case of shadow banning, you haven't kicked them off your property. You're asking them to stay while you earn ad money from their attention. See the linked tweet for a more l…

Thank you for the question. I can think of two reasons: (1) You wouldn't want someone to secretly remove or demote your own commentary. But secretive content moderation is extremel…

Your comment isn't dismissive, but I do think users have a right to know where they've been moderated.

Full moderation logs are different than showing submitters how their posts have been moderated. On HN, my understanding is that you (moderators) can penalize stories without the su…

I would prefer if the market decides, but there are a few non-trivial court cases coming up that may influence what happens. [1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/htm…

I support transparent-to-the-author content moderation, and I suspect that is in the future for today's major platforms, whether they want it or not.

> Wtf are you talking about? He’s literally telling us and has mentioned in the community many times that flagging quickly crushes a story. It's discussed in the link, and elsewher…

> alter the score on a story It's cool that you set up your own instance, but do you see no problem with covertly altering the score of a story? Such secrecy leads to oversized, ov…

Communities would get a good sense for the frequency if forums would simply disclose content moderation to the submitting users. Offending users would learn what's not allowed and …

> Robin89, can you please fix the text? know that was just a mistaken good-faith assumption but it's super wrong. How can he/we verify it's wrong? The down-weighting you describe i…