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The site and community should be structured such that what it values discussion for naturally bubbles up, not different opinionated flags for each interest, fad, or pet peeve.

Though, funnily enough, this kind of info and more is extremely easy to add to HN via a vibed extension. At this point, mine just stops HN from loading completely and constructs its own page (with a proper dark theme and the information I care about).

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Any community needs not only a bubbling up of good content, but also an immune system against bad content. Otherwise in practice you become inundated with spam and noise.

The reason for this is an effort asymmetry: casting upvotes is easy, and most people do it without much thought, whereas determining that something is spam or misinformation requires looking a lot more closely.

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