Hacker News Moderates with Only One Person and Their Biases

#1

Post by Layke1123 » Sat, Jun 04, 2022, 5:54 PM UTC

http://arclanguage.org/

Does anyone have experience with this? Dang told me this is what is used to moderate the site by himself. I wonder how one person moderates this site all alone and what tools he is using to make these decisions. Is anyone else curious about what terms or things Dang allows and also doesn't allow?

Re: Hacker News Moderates with Only One Person and Their Biases

#2

Post by slater » Sat, Jun 04, 2022, 6:04 PM UTC

That's the programming language upon which HN (and moderation tools?) is built, afaik

Re: Hacker News Moderates with Only One Person and Their Biases

#3

Post by Normille » Sat, Jun 04, 2022, 6:10 PM UTC

slater wrote: post #2

That's the programming language upon which HN (and moderation tools?) is built, afaik

The Arc Forum looks eerily familiar:

http://arclanguage.org/forum

Re: Hacker News Moderates with Only One Person and Their Biases

#4

Post by Layke1123 » Sat, Jun 04, 2022, 6:55 PM UTC

Normille wrote: post #3

slater wrote: post #2

That's the programming language upon which HN (and moderation tools?) is built, afaik

The Arc Forum looks eerily familiar: http://arclanguage.org/forum

That is actually very fascinating.

Re: Hacker News Moderates with Only One Person and Their Biases

#5

Post by fuzzfactor » Sat, Jun 04, 2022, 7:58 PM UTC

slater wrote: post #2

That's the programming language upon which HN (and moderation tools?) is built, afaik

It seems to be a fairly high-performance approach.

Re: Hacker News Moderates with Only One Person and Their Biases

#6

Post by verdverm » Sat, Jun 04, 2022, 10:52 PM UTC

There is a lot of community based moderation. It is not just Dang, though he is the primary admin and final decision maker, when it comes to his attention. He does not see everything.

Re: Hacker News Moderates with Only One Person and Their Biases

#7

Post by mtmail » Sun, Jun 05, 2022, 5:12 PM UTC

You need more karma points to see the 'flag' button, even more to see the downvote button. 1000 of users can flag and downvote on Hackernews.

Re: Hacker News Moderates with Only One Person and Their Biases

#8

Post by Layke1123 » Sun, Jun 05, 2022, 9:03 PM UTC

mtmail wrote: post #7

You need more karma points to see the 'flag' button, even more to see the downvote button. 1000 of users can flag and downvote on Hackernews.

Yeah, I wonder why certain people are allowed to obtain that many points to begin with? Almost as if you "play by the book" on a website dedicated to, wait for it, NOT playing by the rules.