You saying that in HN? HN can be as toxic just like any other communities.
Monitor my comment go grey in few minutes.
Monitor my comment go grey in few minutes.
You, as a user, only see one side of it. I'd quit, but I don't want to let down good people who are making an honest effort to keep the sub a nice place to be. Some part of me hopes I catch another site wide shadowban for vpn usage, and I have an excuse to put my account to the torch and start over as just a normal user
The biggest issue is power tripping reddit mods, and mods trying to shape the discourse by deleting posts or banning dissenting voices.
Banning someone because their software uses AI is clearly an example of it.
Now, post removals, we do a lot more of. We do try to moderate the sub such that it has an open, positive vibe in line with it's stated purpose.
I do fully understand what you're saying though. I've been banned for everything from merely asking that a sub enforce it's rules consistently, to asking for sources, to even posting in a particular collection of subs that another sub found objectionable. You have to run pretty far afoul of reddits sitewide rules as a mod to be removed from the position. That's why you see so many thing2 or thingNoCensor subs on subreddit maps.
I do agree HN is substantially better, more behaved though I find many too questionable
After researches, I can tell where they are learning toward.
There are good people but mods will eventually try to "shape" your mind accroding to what they believe in regardless what HN officially claims to do.
Same for Reddit and other "mod" maintained communities.
And who has the most people in the world?
[1]: Politically biased moderation drives echo chamber formation on Reddit https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4990476
If your sub exists as a sort of support sub for one small group that feel they are oppressed by $largerGroup, the most bitter, jaded and cynical users will be the most active. The most active users are the most likely to be recruited as moderators. Those moderators then do not bother to moderate content that matches their more extreme world views, and that pushes more reasonable folks away from the sub. Before you know it, the sub's tone turns more bitter, the wheel turns, more moderate folks leave, and on it goes till your sub is now a profoundly negative and bitter space.
It takes very proactive moderation to prevent that slide, and most folks aren't equipped for it.