| Absolutely not. There are 2 mods running HN. Responding to people is TAXING - as in its hugely costly. And it has some terrible edge cases which destroy the process: The costly occasions are when you meet people who are either a) Angry b) Rule lawyers c) malignantly motivated AT this point their goal is to get attention or apply coercive force on the moderation process. These guys are an existential threat to the conversational process and one of the win conditions is to get people to turn against the moderators. Social media is a topic that HN gets wrong so regularly, and without recourse to research or analysis so frequently that I would avoid discussing moderation in general here. The fact is that if people are arguing in good faith, we can have some amount of peace, and even deal with inadvertent faux pas and ignorance, provided you never reach an eternal september scenario. But bad faith actors make even this scenario impossible. |