[ColinWright]

I'm sure you are not alone, but with respect to the vast majority of what the mods are doing, I substantially agree with them. I disagree over some of the changes in titles, but I'm sure I only see a small percentage of what they do, so logic dictates that most of what they do is good, otherwise it would be more noticeable.

And with regards finding and promoting the sort of submissions they think deserve attention but have been missed, I think that's a good thing.

But I've seen other "communities" where the owners have taken a policy of "... just letting the chaos of the community sort itself out" and in my experience they have quickly descended into cesspits. HN is doing significantly better, and I believe that to be, at least in part, to the "aggressive moderation."

So with respect, overall, I disagree.

[wdewind]

Fair points - it may be I'm just not noticing the mods/moderation when it does its job well. I have watched numerous changes happen in policy, like removing upvote counts etc., and have never noticed positive results from them, but I may be in the minority, and it may be a plugging holes as a ship sinks phenomenon (ie: not the fault of the hole-pluggers).

I guess my feeling is that with a site structured around karma and upvotes it feels messy and complicated to add the "*but sometimes completely changed by moderators."

I use sites like this to get something closer to the firehose, not something hyper curated. Give it to me warts and all, at least I'll know what I'm getting then.