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by mjg59 2808 days ago
Stop penalising stories based on the behaviour of users in the comments. If users can't be trusted to discuss something, disable comments on the story instead. This site isn't purely a mechanism for enabling discussion - it's also one of the primary ways that members of the tech community can become aware of issues, and algorithms that prevent sensitive topics from being visible because they always trigger pointless arguments in the comments don't provide benefit.