Though one who does a stellar job and is amazingly helpful when you contact him. I think he's the main reason why this community still teaches me something new every day.
I agree crowdsourcing reports like on HN won't work on more mainstream platforms though. Because it only works if the vast majority of the community is sane, helpful and caring.
Unfortunately the cross-section of general society doesn't match that profile anymore. Speaking as a citizen of a country where 24% voted for right-wing extremists in the last election... :'(
I'm pleasantly surprised HN is still so nice and inspiring to curiosity in this adverse societal climate.
I don't understand how HN's community is distinct from the community on any other social network. This is a public site, and anyone can make an account and post whatever they want. You do see several attempted spam comments on many posts here, it's just that they rapidly get faded to obscurity.
> This is a public site, and anyone can make an account and post whatever they want. You do see several attempted spam comments on many posts here, it's just that they rapidly get faded to obscurity.
Yes but in general it will attract the more thoughtful types especially because it doesn't have screaming in your face clickbait headlines and attention-seeking pictures. I think the format helps a lot. And also the policy: HN tends to favour uneditorialised headlines for example.
The typical conspiracy theorist and anger adrenaline junkie will find nothing here to feed their desire to hate and even if they come across this site they'll roll their eyes at it and close it. They'll just go to fox news or gab. Even if that stuff wasn't downmodded here it would not incite them enough because it's not in big bold clickbaity headlines :)
Though one who does a stellar job and is amazingly helpful when you contact him. I think he's the main reason why this community still teaches me something new every day.
I agree crowdsourcing reports like on HN won't work on more mainstream platforms though. Because it only works if the vast majority of the community is sane, helpful and caring.
Unfortunately the cross-section of general society doesn't match that profile anymore. Speaking as a citizen of a country where 24% voted for right-wing extremists in the last election... :'(
I'm pleasantly surprised HN is still so nice and inspiring to curiosity in this adverse societal climate.