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Re: Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator

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Post by megadata »

ziddoap wrote: post #167
megadata wrote: post #152

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And me pointing it out is also being downvoted.

Probably because a single example at a single time point can't really be extrapolated to the entire platform across all times. The comment being downvoted proves nothing (as evidenced by the fact it's now upvoted to the 2nd top comment!) And this comment of yours I'm replying to will probably get downvoted because it's a complaint about votes that contributes literally nothing to the conversation (in fact, detracts f…

> because it's a complaint about votes

It's not a complaint. I'm just pointing them out. Without them I couldn't argue my case at all.

Re: Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator

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Post by BUFU »

tomhow wrote: post #173

Many thanks for the warm welcome, everyone. It’s been a privilege to help support this community and to work alongside dang, who has been a great friend and mentor for many years. It’s a great responsibility, to keep HN a healthy and thriving community, and I’m continually amazed to see all the ways dang puts thought and energy into it. One final note is that it was never part of the negotiations that I was expected…

Welcome!

Re: Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator

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Post by r00fus »

roflyear wrote: post #38
theoryofx wrote: post #20

One thing that I appreciate about dang, and PG before him, is their intellectual honesty and strong sense of ethics. On the face of it, HN should be terrible. It's a forum owned an investment firm as promotion for their business. But because HN was started by an individual with real values, and has been operated day-to-day by individuals that followed in his tradition, its been capable of unreasonable greatness and r…

I really don't think that HN lets dissenting opinions thrive (well, not anything that is truly controversial but not clearly hateful). That may feel cozy but it's not a reflection of anything pure or good, imo.

There are some shibboleths that you absolutely can't touch or you'll be downvoted rigorously. But less than on other fora.

Re: Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator

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Post by tombert »

frainfreeze wrote: post #217
tomhow wrote: post #173

Many thanks for the warm welcome, everyone. It’s been a privilege to help support this community and to work alongside dang, who has been a great friend and mentor for many years. It’s a great responsibility, to keep HN a healthy and thriving community, and I’m continually amazed to see all the ways dang puts thought and energy into it. One final note is that it was never part of the negotiations that I was expected…

One more welcome from another Tom o/ Nice to hear someone else is looking at Arc now as well! Any chance we might see some issues on anarki resolved now? Perhaps https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/issues/89 would be a good starting point :grin: Jokes aside, its good to see YC cares about community, and looking forward to seeing your nick in the comments. Good luck

Indeed, from yet another Tom, glad you're doing what you're doing. HN is the best forum on the internet in no small part due to very active moderation efforts.

Re: Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator

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Post by Lerc »

pvg wrote: post #329
Lerc wrote: post #311

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I would say it mimics real life interactions of some communities. I do not think that is universal. I tend to think that the communities, in real life and online, that permit civil discussion of dissenting opinions are the healthier ones. I think there is a far greater real life social cost in violating standards of behaviour, such as aggressive engagement, or acting without empathy. I would argue that it is those in…

I would say it mimics real life interactions of some communities. I do not think that is universal. I would say this is straight up wrong. It is universal since it's fundamental to being a social animal. There's a cost to being at odds with a group. We do have all sorts of mechanism and rituals, formal and informal, to minimize or amortize that cost in all sorts of settings but it's still there and it's still essenti…

I guess we shall have to agree to disagree there.

Re: Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator

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Post by diggan »

dragonwriter wrote: post #257
diggan wrote: post #256

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If you flag, downvote, and/or vouch comments, you're basically already a moderator-lite yourself :)

Upvoting posts has a moderation-like effect (opposed to that of downvoting).

I dunno, I feel like that'd be "curation" rather than "moderation".

Re: Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator

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Post by Teever »

Teever wrote: post #340
mkl wrote: post #187

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dang is Canadian.

I say this as a Canadian -- So he's basically Canadian-lite culturally. I want to see more moderation from people around the world, with less geographic and cultural proximity to the Bay area.

Oops, I meant American-Lite.
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