[chris_wot]

For anyone who wonders why HN mods are overly strict, then note that Kuro5hin tolerated trolls and they utterly destroyed the site. It doesn't exist any more.

[dredmorbius]

It had limped along until a year or so back when the server finally fell over.

The domain is parked now.

But yeah, the trolls pretty much ruined it, life lesson. Rusty turned up running a Mastodon instance, though I haven't seen him for a few months.

[wowtip]

The change in direction of content of kuro5hin, is that the trolls you refer to?

I just visited sporadically and noticed focus drifted from tech related and interesting to political and sometimes into conspiracy theory areas around the time when I stopped visiting.

[dredmorbius]

Not OP, but that was a significant part of it, yes.

Both the quality / topic of posts, and of discussion, faded quickly.

[jiggunjer]

Same happened to usenet. Too much noise.