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by KennyBlanken 1709 days ago
Look at the discussion thread Dang waxes poetically in and note that he doesn't moderate several significantly more flamebait-y, political comments that happen to be on the others side of the political fence.

Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27164027

2 comments

Yes, Dang misses some, but I think the idea is that some posts fall through the cracks but if you routinely break the rules, you're going to eventually get flagged/banned. That way, we avoid a lot of false positive flags/bans that would otherwise be unjustly punished on Reddit.
Yes, Dang is a good moderator and HN is still my favourite discussion board on the internet in large part due to their approach to moderation.