Strongly disagree.
Scroll to the bottom of comment sections on HN, you’ll find the kind of low-effort drive-by comments that are usually at the top of Reddit comment sections.
In other words, it helps to have real moderators.
Strongly disagree.
Scroll to the bottom of comment sections on HN, you’ll find the kind of low-effort drive-by comments that are usually at the top of Reddit comment sections.
In other words, it helps to have real moderators.
While the tone on HN is much more civil than on Reddit. It's still quite the echo chamber.
> It's still quite the echo chamber.
We have people from every political spectrum here and they don't get banned, how can it be an echo chamber?
We have communists, free market absolutists and so on all arguing in the same comment section. I don't think I have seen any thread with many comments where both (or more) sides weren't represented.
> We have people from every political spectrum here and they don't get banned, how can it be an echo chamber?
I mean sure, they may not get banned, but start voicing an opinion that it even moderately against the status quo and you get downvoted to oblivion.