Comment by blueflow
4 months ago
You can scroll through the lobste.rs moderation log to get in impression of how moderation on lobste.rs works:
Also incidents like this:
https://lobste.rs/s/zp4ofg/lobster_burntsushi_has_left_site
This kind of stuff gives me hugbox vibes, i would not feel safe there. I'm somewhat sure some of the moderators use the website as personal political leverage.
I used to have an account on that site as well and left for the same reason: repeated messages telling me I had been flagged and I needed to reconsider when I dared to venture too far outside the desired narrative. There will be many others who have made or will make the same decision which leaves sites like this with a population which is mostly ideologically cohesive. Maybe that is a good thing for those sites and maybe the participants feel 'safe' in such an environment but it surely is lacking in stimulating curiosity and widening one's intellectual horizon.
Sounds familiar, except here there's no notification when you get flagged/deaded/shadowbanned.
At least HN allows you to come back under another name and with that is less at risk of totally succumbing to the echo chamber mentality. It also does not tie new users to existing ones nor are existing users who happen to invite new users who are deemed to be 'problematic' punished for those invitations.
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What does 14 88 refer to in your username?
I'm sure you already know and are asking as a way to point it out, but for anyone who doesn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words.
Does this person actually buy into the nonsense, though, or are they just being provocative? Both are reasons to mute someone, but only one is ideological.
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