I've seen some pretty heinous opinions expressed on HN, but because they're expressed with the correct tone, the ones responding to them are the ones that get moderated.
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It's just not a solvable problem. No matter what dang, et al, do, they're creating a place they themselves WANT, and most people conform or skirt just within the edges.
But you can always tell when you're interacting with someone not worth interacting with, because they'll skirt the tone bounardaries while still being just as much of an argumentative jackass as they would on reddit.
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This imagined superiority of discourse is just pompous arrogance on the part of a few people who actually think what dang, et al, have set out to do is solvable. If they solve it, they've solved humans. The only thing they can do is change their view over time on what is acceptable, and that's really what you're seeing. Them changing as humans over years.
I've seen some pretty heinous opinions expressed on HN, but because they're expressed with the correct tone, the ones responding to them are the ones that get moderated.
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It's just not a solvable problem. No matter what dang, et al, do, they're creating a place they themselves WANT, and most people conform or skirt just within the edges.
But you can always tell when you're interacting with someone not worth interacting with, because they'll skirt the tone bounardaries while still being just as much of an argumentative jackass as they would on reddit.
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This imagined superiority of discourse is just pompous arrogance on the part of a few people who actually think what dang, et al, have set out to do is solvable. If they solve it, they've solved humans. The only thing they can do is change their view over time on what is acceptable, and that's really what you're seeing. Them changing as humans over years.