I'll reiterate my claim: It does mostly get moderated, but not entirely and often way too late when the post is falling off the front page anyway.
The comments do not happen on other platforms in the first place. HN just has a segment of people that will cause this. I don't want to explore if dang can personally change this or if this site needs a culture shift to address these (probably few) people, but they're there.
And here's the other thread that marcan refers to that was [flagged][dead] for about the first 3 hours and only recovered because of attention elsewhere.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36030969
The last one also has some great comments (/s) ranging from grating to outright genocidal, especially if you switch on showdead.
HN is disproportionately bigoted. I'm a trans person and using this site can be really fraught at times. They aren't painting all of HN with a brush; but it's fair to say that I wouldn't want HN discussing my projects either, because it'll tend towards right-wing hatred more often than not. That's just a large portion of the demographic of this website. I'm glad the Asahi team is taking a stance against bigotry instead of brushing it under the rug like so many "allies" do.
You can get butt hurt when someone says a group you're a part of has issues; or you can self-reflect and understand where the criticism is coming from. That's up to you.
> It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money. A man would be annoyed if he found himself in a mob of millionaires, all holding out their silk hats for a penny; or all shouting with one voice, “Give me money.” Yet advertisement does really assault the eye very much as such a shout would assault the ear. “Budge’s Boots are the Best” simply means “Give me money”; “Use Seraphic Soap” simply means “Give me money.” It is a complete mistake to suppose that common people make our towns commonplace, with unsightly things like advertisements. Most of those whose wares are thus placarded everywhere are very wealthy gentlemen with coronets and country seats, men who are probably very particular about the artistic adornment of their own homes. They disfigure their towns in order to decorate their houses.
Me and a few other moderators of some medium sized subs that we manage are leaving and a few others have been demoralized into doing nothing. We're having trouble finding new mods and the ones who are filling applications are either racists or power mods. The subs are operating in a restricted manner in part as a form of extended protest but in reality mostly because there's no longer enough manpower to run them in an effective manner. When the subs are finally forced to open fully the remaining mods will need to either make moderating their full time job or they will be crushed by a neverending queue of spam and hate and by people asking how to fix their mouse in a software forum.
Interacting with other mod teams we've learned that this mod scarcity is apparently universal.
None of this matters to reddit because in all honesty they would probably be happier and more profitable by converting the website into a read only feed of memes and kittens.
The comments do not happen on other platforms in the first place. HN just has a segment of people that will cause this. I don't want to explore if dang can personally change this or if this site needs a culture shift to address these (probably few) people, but they're there.
Here's a bunch of receipts: https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/110507731403617388
Here's the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36230649
And here's the other thread that marcan refers to that was [flagged][dead] for about the first 3 hours and only recovered because of attention elsewhere. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36030969
The last one also has some great comments (/s) ranging from grating to outright genocidal, especially if you switch on showdead.