Never Forgive Them
21 points by wgx 6 months ago | 9 comments- 6 months ago
- watt 6 months ago[flagged]
- FollowingTheDao 6 months ago[flagged]
- pvg 6 months agoYou can email hn@ycombinator.com with your moderation questions and a human replies to them.
- FollowingTheDao 6 months agoThis is, like the article states, hostile to the user.
First, moderation should be clear enough that I do not have to ask "why?". Second, I have to trust the person I am emailing to give me a true, unbiased, answer. I will assume dang cannot spend time to thoroughly think through every question and complaint.
I know why I get rate limited, it is because "We rate limit accounts when they post too many low-quality comments and/or get involved in flamewars." I am always accused of this but it is never explained. In trying to defend my idea I get labeled as getting into a flamewar even when I am doing things like citing evidence to prove my point.
But dang is the only mediator of this subjective label.
Dang has said "Flamewar comments routinely get the largest number of responses." What? So post post a controversial hypothesis (note that something controversial does not mean it is not true) which creates a lot of responses, and then the comment gets flagged?
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Also, for me to communicate with dang, it means I have to give him my email, which is not required to make an account on this site.
Also, the HN Guidelines say "Please don't post shallow dismissals".
What is a downvote but the perfection of a shallow dismissal? Requiring people to comment when voting would end the gang dismissal of new/different ideas and foster creative thinking instead of crushing them into oblivion.
- pvg 6 months agoI don't think the article states this - whatever HNs many problems, 'chasing growth at all costs' and 'lack of explanation for moderation actions' are not among them.
First, moderation should be clear enough that I do not have to ask "why?".
That's not a reasonable standard, the target for such things has to be something like 'most users, most of the time' rather than you personally.
Also, for me to communicate with dang, it means I have to give him my email, which is not required to make an account on this site.
Also, the HN Guidelines say "Please don't post shallow dismissals".
It sounds like you want to use a messageboard exclusively on your terms. That's fine but it shouldn't be surprising to you most messageboards, being populated and maintained by other people, can't easily accomodate that.
- pvg 6 months ago
- FollowingTheDao 6 months ago
- pvg 6 months ago