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There are enough bad-faith commenters on HN that I personally would find this very useful.
asking this out of curiosity due to recent reflection on similar - what's stopping us simply not responding to those arguing in bad faith ?
Edit: wait, just a custom CSS will do it.
How about an option in the HN settings to hide user names then?
I've been testing it out for a bit, unfortunately the layout shift when all the icons load in is very distracting.
The layout doesn't shift down. It only moves the meta information to the right of the user name over a little bit.
As kid who grew up on anonymous boards, I never even read user names. Accounts are ephemeral and worthless. Ideas are only things that matter.
I'd state the exact opposite, especially in times where fake news, bot farms and AI generated content are everywhere it matters if something comes from a trusted source or not.
As kid who grew up on anonymous boards, I never even read user names. Accounts are ephemeral and worthless. Ideas are only things that matter.
> Accounts are ephemeral and worthless. I'd state the exact opposite, especially in times where fake news, bot farms and AI generated content are everywhere it matters if something comes from a trusted source or not.
I don’t care about how many up or down votes some comment or piece of content has. I also have never blindly trusted videos or pictures. All sources can be corrupted and as such shouldn’t be trusted without verification.
Which is why I still don’t value accounts nor read user names.
Even with people I personally know I have always used the phrase: “trust, but verify”
What happens if friends conflict?
Personally I like hn because there is karma, but it's an afterthought. Although I'll it a try. I suspect the problems of reputation and the internet are unsolvable, that doesn't mean we can't try and improve it.
Thanks to the HN moderators for re-posting this after I posted this a few days ago. I only notice now that it's on the front page. Happy to answer any questions. Let me tell you, I've really enjoyed having those writers that I like highlighted on this comment thread because it makes it very easy to scan it. I think it's important to remember that this is not about hiding writers you disagree with. It's simply about m…
i clicked to fast. "please leave the link in your about section and it'll allow..." it will do what? i don't want to put ands there. what was the function of leaving it?
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Mathematical quality scoring doesn’t work well for moderation of human behaviour in a community. Context matters a lot. Feelings influence people’s conduct and perception of others’ conduct a great deal. A user may get huge numbers of upvotes for comments they make about a technology or their profession, but then attract many downvotes and flags when they're commenting about politics. This is particularly true when p…
Sheesh. I meant that as a step 1 to get a list of suspect users, and then you read the users comments to see if they're all breaking the rules. (The same thing you'd do if you get a report of a user being "moronic" over email)
Plenty of users help us by emailing us about egregious accounts that they notice, and you’re most welcome to do that too. We can take action or reply to you explaining our interpretation of their activity in relation to the guidelines. We’re always happy to explain our thinking once we have a specific example to discuss.
As kid who grew up on anonymous boards, I never even read user names. Accounts are ephemeral and worthless. Ideas are only things that matter.
> Accounts are ephemeral and worthless. I'd state the exact opposite, especially in times where fake news, bot farms and AI generated content are everywhere it matters if something comes from a trusted source or not.
Is the friend of friend limited to one deep? What happens if friends conflict? Personally I like hn because there is karma, but it's an afterthought. Although I'll it a try. I suspect the problems of reputation and the internet are unsolvable, that doesn't mean we can't try and improve it.