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Brings back unhappy memories of the conversation style in Usenet. I didn't dare to use newsgroups after I asked some wrong thing as a 15-year-old in some computing-related group and got dumped on by angry adult men.

I get it that they were frustrated by Eternal September and whatever. But thinking back to those times makes me appreciate the moderation culture that dang has created here, as well as the non-linear structure that moves less popular comments out of the way of attention.



Similar memories have been an influence on HN's moderation style. I've mentioned that a few times over the years:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34328146 (Jan 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32725068 (Sept 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28832073 (Oct 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26855767 (April 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19773300 (April 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11839842 (June 2016)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10979050 (Jan 2016)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9813527 (July 2015)

- and more generally https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Occasionally I run into posts from the heyday of comp.lang.lisp and it's still astonishing how high-quality the discussion was, before it wasn't.


I appreciate your work; I can see how difficult it must be.




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