[moistly]

Maybe if you’re logged in? The past dozen times in the past dozen years I’ve peeked in at Slashdot, not logged in, it’s a pile of “frist psot!” and abuse. That is solid contrast against HN, where I prefer to be logged-out because it hides so much trash; logged-in, I see more down-moderated low-value crap.

Encouraging people to be logged-out must reduce the response rate to bait, and also reduce baiting, especially if tight moderation reduces bait’s impact on sincere and productive discussion.

[type0]

I had showdead enabled for a while and it's surprising to me how little downvoted crap it actually is on HN. But I agree HN has some quality posts on many topics so lurking experience is great in contrast to many other sites nowadays.