(moved) boots🌸🌿i will fight every single person suggesting that a "reputation score" is the way to fix abuse
have you been on reddit ever
have you been on reddit ever
⚗️⚗️⚗️ pnathan ⚗️⚗️⚗️@b they all have the issue of MUST GET IMAGINARY INTERNET POINTS PLZ NOW.
@pnathan Exactly.
Also, I've heard bad things about Hacker News and...well, nothing at all about Digg, but here's a good article about SO. https://hackernoon.com/the-decline-of-stack-overflow-7cb69faa575d
Also, I've heard bad things about Hacker News and...well, nothing at all about Digg, but here's a good article about SO. https://hackernoon.com/the-decline-of-stack-overflow-7cb69faa575d
@b hacker news is irregular. some topics attract the toxic. some topics have super legit threads. It has gotten better over the past year.
I have a fairly high rep on SO (26K) - the system is just not good. It empowers time-spent over quality, and first movers over late movers. I rarely use it these days. SO also has weird weird moderation/management practices (or had. it's been a few years).
@b I actually had my website be #1 for most of a day on HN a week or two ago?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13979002
I was actually highly impressed by the discourse.
But any topic touching gender, race, etc, is like a *magnet* for toxicity: I don't even go there.
@b Thinking more: this is actually an exercise in applied polysci. there are Admins, who *own* the server. Moderators are chosen through a diversity of means, but generally there is no process to fire them: they are enfeuded to the admin. Sometimes there are lower levels of mod, but they too are enfeuded to admins. Sometimes within the domain, you can have submods enfeuded in practice to mods. Regardless, the populace life in fiefs and have no recourse without rioting.