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I like lobsters. One of my main use cases is on my phone in the middle of the night (while rocking my newborn), since it actually has a legit dark mode, unlike HN, which blinds me and lights up the room. I don't understand how HN doesn't...
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I've certainly read that thread, and I don't know what you're trying to say.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought you were trying to compare the Lobsters moderators to Dang in a positive way, something not really emphasized in the top comment and its children.
At least two of the tales of woe posted in this discussion have shown that the user was not in fact blameless.
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Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought you were trying to compare the Lobsters moderators to Dang in a positive way, something not really emphasized in the top comment and its children.
Pretty much any complaint about moderation from anyone always has another side to the story. At least two of the tales of woe posted in this discussion have shown that the user was not in fact blameless.
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This is a common failure mode that's seen in some reddit subs. In reddit, the moderators of that sub get a particular idea of how their sub should look, which oddly enough includes the idea that what they do is always right. Any sub that can have physical products backing it, such as makeup, will commonly fall in this trap. Mods: "You cannot promote products here... (unless you're one of my friends or giving me kickb…
>you have a very large usebase to keep the sub alive. I don't know about that. You have a large userbase of upvoters sure, but commenter were declining in quantity long before the June API changes on a number of subs that were more discussion based than meme or article upvotes. https://subredditstats.com/r/conspiracy Conspiracy is a good example of a discussion sub, no comment on the actual discussions, driven by upv…
I think you can have your cake and eat it here.
If you filter HN with uBlock Origin to remove topics and sources you are not interested in, i.e. non-technical ones in my case, probably the case for many others too, then you can create what Lobsters was going for, but here on HN.
You get the fully populated, buoyant chat, whilst fine tuning the scope of topics and sources you see.
I detailed the uBO rules here a moment ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38510651
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That's not a particularly good example, their latest self-promo post has a warning from the mod on it...
To nitpick: that's not a comment from a mod. Posts speaking from a position of mod will have [sysop] next to the title. It's part of a "hats system", which more generally allows people to speak as representative of something. IE if /u/johncheng was a Rust core dev, they can post whatever they want as John Cheng, but also write posts as [core dev] to say they're speaking as part of the core team. It's a neat system bu…
I had an account here. I still do. Like some other people point out: Invitation-only means trolls are less likely to show up. But the higher end of quality is not significantly better than HN. If anything, it might be worse. My experience with the moderation there is that some people post clear self-promotion articles, but when I attempted to post my things, I get told that this content is not welcome on the site. Wh…
the best content on sites like this is the random comment that appears from somebody who's the absolute undisputed expect on some subject, and doesn't normally leave comments, but sees an opportunity to share their knowledge and does so because it's low enough friction.
Their design allows them to focus on 'acculturating' new users, but does very little to spell out that culture or present unambiguous guard rails.
There are some prominent posters whose personal projects get free passes.
I don't feel like Lobsters is a community friendly to people on the spectrum. They expect allistic members who all understand socializing on an intuitive and instinctual level.
I've considered looking for an invite, but I don't think I'd be well received and I don't care for being reprimanded by a stranger over tone or 'unprofessionalism' when I see straight trolling or passive aggression in comments.
The invite system is solid but I would change a few things to turn it into a place I might have a chance of being welcome.
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I have never thought of it that way, and I'm still not sure I understand the idea. For some people the point of visiting a site is related to the number of votes or comments?
Well no the numbers aren't going to be a thing anyone directly cares about. Of course not, haha. Looking at my previous comments I'm not sure I even said anything that would imply that? What the numbers represent (how active the community is) is the bit folks would care about. In any case I used the numbers as a measure of how much the site is growing or not growing in response to the comment I responded to. The numb…