That's what I've come to appreciate about HN. I'm further reminded of this by the volume of (largely negative) interactions I've had with Reddit mods over the years.
Not much. Plenty of nonsense posts/comments are ignored by moderators but the community just downvotes them mostly out of sight. I would say the community itself does most of the work and always has been the case.
Not really. Sort by new and take a look yourself. Nonsense posts get downvoted before a moderator has to do anything. People who sort by top or whatever never see it.
I’ve never understood moderators who are big enough busy bodies to spend their lives removing memes that they dislike so much that they proceed to view every single one submitted to a subreddit so they can remove them.
I moderated a subreddit that went from 50k to 200k subscribers and a lot of automation makes it easier to handle standard spam, but 5-6 mods still spent a few hours every day to make it work. This doesn't show up in any sorting.
I babysit a small sub and have removed around 150 pornbots this month. Maybe I should just leave them since votes are sufficient? It would represent over three quarters of the submissions though.
Posts get filtered by automod rules and anti-spam before they hit the new queue. So this isn’t really sound logic.
The general point you are making IS correct though, upvotes/downvotes are the primary moderation mechanism on Reddit. Moderators are the second layer of moderation, and admins are the third. In my experience the users did an absolute majority of the moderation work except on weird heavily modded communities.
Most large subreddits use AutoModerator and bots that remove posts or filter them for moderator review. Filtered posts are visible to the poster, from the poster's profile, or by moderators. Also, Reddit's spam filter automatically quarantines posts/comments which contain link shorteners and some other sites. None of these systems are apparent to end users unless your post is filtered or removed.
Here are some concrete examples of automatic post removals from my sub.
• Autoplaying Videos - e.g. TikTok
• Short Posts - e.g. discussions under 10 characters in length
• Vague Bodies - e.g. all emojis or punctuation, "lol", "see title", "this", "ty"
• Vague Titles - e.g. all emojis or punctuation, "Looking for...", "THIS", etc.
What is so insidious about moderation is you could have a moderator removing posts for whatever reason they like and you will simply never see that content or even be aware it was removed. I’d love dual versions of subs - moderated and unmoderated so these people could be regularly audited.
What does this mean? The "retina" resolutions are all over the place and depend on the device size and type. Also they seem to always be somewhere in the middle of pc options, e.g. for the macbook air 13 you have 1920x1200 (average pc) < 2560x1664 (air or expensive pc) < 3840x2400 (overkill pc). For your example at 27" that seems to be 4k (average pc) < 5k (studio display) < 6k (dell etc.) < 8k (overkill).
All displays from Apple have different resolutions. Natively they are comparable to previous Apple displays of half the linear density (800x1280-ish for 13”, 1080 for 15” and so on).
Okay, so you can "see the difference" (positively, I assume?) of this to a 27" 4k monitor.
What about 27" 6k or 14" 4k?
Side rant: Yeah, apple makes great stuff, but the naming is obnoxious. It is not "hidpi" it is "retina", not "high refresh rate" but "promotion" and then you have to look through the marketing material to figure out how '14" retina' compares to a normal UHD+ display.
If I can see the difference I would assume I will be able to see a difference between 27" 4k and 27" 6k.
My canon 80d has a resolution of 6k x 4k.
I also can perceive the sharpness of text.
I don't mind to not run 8k IF driving the display pixels consumes too much energy. The argument of Performance though should not really exist. It's much more pixels true but there are plenty of technics to separate this technically.
Even on gaming they have adaptive rendering but the display resolution itself stays the same.
The power consumption is not so much on the gpu side. Denser pixels require stronger backlights because less light gets through. So even if you were to run the screen at half the max resolution, you get worse battery life. Similarly, oled is awesome tech, but high brightness requires more energy than led backlights.
My comment was based on visual acuity limits. A person with 20/20 vision and a 32" 4K display will hit that limit at around 2ft. Going to a higher resolution you won't be able to see individual pixels anymore unless you have better than average eyesight or sit close to your monitor.
The GPU bit was purely about games and how many pixels you are pushing in games vs cost for a minimum quality and performance level. For content consumption or creation use it isn't a problem.
Hacking back? Another company because an ex employee got hired there?
That's taking the law in your own hand and is clearly NOT ethical.
And sry to say but the homeless person wtf? This dude clearly doesn't understand how we as humans love to interpret things our way.